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...thing that we see that really tells us the most about the consumer's financial situation is displaced merchandise. [Customers] fill their baskets; then what they do is take that merchandise out as they pick other things up. When the economy gets tougher, we have to go through that store more frequently. We saw that this year particularly as we got later in the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for H. Lee Scott | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

Other things that the David Project would like to see added at Columbia include a tougher policy to prevent professors from intimidating students, a diversity of academic perspectives that would focus more broadly on the Middle East and the adoption of a single standard for minorities, which would treat Jews like other minorities...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Amlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Columbia To Probe Faculty Remarks | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...second match was actually tougher,” Chu said. “I’ve played Darius a bunch of times before, and he gave me a better ball to play against. But I was more awake and I played better [in the second match...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Does Well at Tourney | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Norman said he made his players tougher by throwing chairs and sending freshmen to Somerville to get him sugar cookies and cheesecake...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BAMA SLAMMA: Shedding Light On Midnight Madness | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

...good roles to a Hollywood slot system for black comics. "Will Smith has a slot," he says. "Martin Lawrence has a slot. Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, they all have slots. I needed to get a slot." (Foxx says this with no rancor; he believes white actors have it tougher because "there's so damn many of them.") He read for the Rod Tidwell role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise (for which Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: THE ART OF BEING A CONFIDENCE MAN | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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