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Attention holiday shoppers: Returning all those silly snowflake sweaters, that fifth pair of Isotoners or that Chia Pet is about to get a little tougher. Retailers have been tightening their policies and relying on computer authorization systems to track and limit returns and exchanges, and this year they're even more aware of fraudulent returns. Retailers say they are just trying to soften the hit they expect to take--as much as $30 billion each year--from theft and fraud. "Honest customers won't be denied when they're in the right," says Joseph LaRocca, vice president of loss prevention...
...estimated $390 million on his stake and has indicated he may seek board representation. Kerkorian tried to take over Chrysler, and while he isn't expected to try that with GM, he's likely to lobby for Wagoner to speed up the turnaround, if not agitate for a tougher-minded outsider to take the helm...
...ROCKFORD FILES SEASON 1 There have been tougher, more polished private eyes on TV than Jim Rockford (James Garner) but none as cool. Rockford was a classic '70s outlaw antihero: a roguish, check-bouncing ex-con (wrongly convicted) who lived in a trailer and was nearly as great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying...
...rebounds, and although she pulled down just two more in the second frame, she did finish with 13 points and her first career double-double. Still, the personal achievement didn’t make up for the lack of toughness shown by the team. “They were tougher tonight,” McCaffery said. “It was our home opener, and we should have come out a lot stronger and ready to play. We just weren’t here in the second half. We started out strong and then just kind of fell apart...
...have a team that is as tough or tougher than any team in the past,” Cusworth says. “We see [a championship] in the near future and believe this is our year...