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...first loss in its 135-year history, British grocer J Sainsbury pledged to cut prices. With rival Tesco's substantial buying power allowing it to keep costs down, "price has moved up the consumer's agenda over the last decade," says Gavin Rothwell, senior analyst at U.K. retail consultant Verdict Research. France, too, seems ready for a price war. Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy last week pledged to reform an eight-year-old law forbidding supermarkets from selling below cost price. Beleaguered Carrefour, Europe's largest retailer, cheered the prospect, hoping to take on discounters like Leader Price. But can chains...
Leaning on her daughters for support, an emotional Ada Colono, mother of the victim, broke into sobs after the verdict...
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...blocks around the Cambridge street corner where the stabbing took place, reaction to the verdict was decidedly mixed...
Casey B. Gane, who taught Colono’s eighth-grade class at Graham and Parks School, said he was pleased with the verdict. He said the prosecution’s request for a first-degree homicide conviction seemed excessively severe...