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...Japan and Western Europe will buy fewer digital cameras this year than they did last year (in fact, the numbers already declined in Japan in 2005). Around the world, [an error occurred while processing this directive] they'll purchase only 10% more cameras than a year ago - 103.2 million versus 93.8 million. That's nothing, considering that in 2005 sales jumped by 27%, in 2004 by 51% and in 2003 by 73%. "We're reaching a saturation point," says Chris Chute, an analyst with IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. "Some of the weak vendors below 8% market share will have...
...ordinance,? Target announced today that it was scrapping plans to build a store on the city?s North Side. Big-box ordinances, a relative of living-wage laws, require large retailers like Target, Home Depot and Wal-Mart to pay a minimum wage closer to $10 an hour versus the Federal minimum of $5.15 and in some cases offer health coverage. The ordinances have become popular in big cities, a relatively unexploited market so far for big-box retailers. But are the ordinances ultimately hurting the very city residents they allege to protect...
...driving revenues," he adds. "And that will continue." Commercial Closet Association, a New York City-based group that counsels firms on smarter representation of gays in advertising, logged 436 gay-themed ads in global gay and mainstream media last year - around a fifth of which appeared in Europe - versus around 350 in 2003. "What might seem a very brave step to make isn't that brave, really," says Jon Howard, strategy director of London ad agency Quiet Storm. He suggests gays are on average "more affluent, more interested in style and brands, and travel more" than their straight counterparts. Moreover...
...Despite the broad scale improvement of all subgroups, the Asian students improved 9 points in [English Language Arts (ELA)] versus a 1 point improvement for the lowest scoring group, special education students,” Fowler-Finn wrote in an e-mail...
...more than spice up a genre; he created a format that bridged midcult and low art, print and picture. Block notes that Hammer "was originally intended as a comic-strip hero. The fast cuts, the in-your-face immediacy, and the clear-cut, no-shades-of-gray, good-versus-evil story lines of the Mike Hammer novels come straight out of the comic-book world. Mickey Spillane was writing something else - comic books for grown-ups." I, the Jury, then, can lay claim to being the first graphic novel, just without illustrations...