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Tuesday Morning anticipates strong holiday sales, despite a sluggish start. "We expect to end the year 12% up," says Ross. The company typically rakes in 45% of its revenues and all its profits in the fourth quarter. But Ross is looking far beyond the current season. He aims to nearly double the number of Tuesday Morning stores to 250 by 1995 and to be open -- and closed -- for business in every state...
Thus, we find extremists dominating the current discourse (ORGASM and AALARM), while the liberals have lost the motivation to argue intelligently for their positions. It is not a defense of liberal values to say that an opponent is "racist" or "homophobic," and as the current assault on Roe v. Wade shows, liberals must be careful not to fall into the complacency of an established position...
...waste of the current system is enormous. Paying a guard for an eight-hour shift at the standard rate of $7.75 per hour (many earn more) costs $62, not even including benefits and payroll taxes. That means that Harvard shells something like $180,000 per academic year just to protect the six libraries I looted...
That is why the New York Times approached her with the project to "design a readable book on the history of Iraq," something which Mylroie does not think exists among current scholarship. The book also "explains about the region, and about Saddam and his motives for taking Kuwait...
...authors also cite Saddam's turbulent childhood and violent rise to power as possible reasons for his current behavior. Mylroie claims that Saddam's favorite movie is The Godfather because it mirrors his own upbringing. He too came from a peasant background and entered the world of crime through family connections. In the chapters on his personal history, the book details all the people whom Saddam personally has killed, his role in coup attempts and his job as a torturer in the early 1960s...