Word: disarray
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...game, looking for growth from personal care at Bath & Body Works, from lingerie at Victoria's Secret--which is undergoing aggressive expansion of its own--and from accessories at Henri Bendel. (To understand the reason for this strategy, look no further than the Limited's second-quarter results: ongoing disarray at its Express clothing division dragged down the entire company's earnings.) Ten years ago, 80% of the Limited Brands' revenue came from apparel. Today only a third does...
...east German voters. Merkel, an easterner herself, handled the furore deftly, praising east Germans for their huge effort to rebuild their economy and society after the fall of the Wall. Ruth Kranz, 37, a teacher from Wolfhagen, near Kassel, intends to vote for Merkel but marvels at the disarray: "It almost looks like Stoiber and the other cdu/csu men want to prevent Merkel from becoming Chancellor. Otherwise, how can you explain such a dumb move...
With the opposition in disarray, Marcos continued to maneuver. Among other things, the President last week announced that he had created a panel of military men to reorganize the armed forces. The move was regarded in part as an effort to allay U.S. restiveness over the reinstatement of General Fabian Ver, 65, a longtime Marcos crony, as military chief of staff. Ver is one of 26 men on trial for complicity in the 1983 Aquino assassination. Last week the Philippines Supreme Court temporarily forbade a special corruption tribunal to issue a verdict in the case. One military dissident dismissed Marcos...
...North Adams Regional Hospital is to an adolescent, and 90% of the young mothers wind up on welfare. "I'm seeing a world where kids feel being pregnant is a viable option," sighs Maggie Bitman, who runs a parenting program in North Adams. "They feel their lives are in disarray." The situation is similar in the mostly white, down-at-the-heels southern counties of Illinois, and in white, working-class areas where the work has disappeared. The underlying reasons for the pregnancies are no different from those in urban ghettos: lack of opportunity, absence of interesting alternatives to childbearing...
...hijackers were Saudi citizens. Now it appears that the U.S. bears some responsibility for the slackness with which leads were pursued. According to several former employees of the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, the FBI legal attaché's office housed within the embassy was often in disarray during the months that followed 9/11. When an FBI supervisor arrived to clean up the mess, she found a mountain of paper and, for security reasons, ordered wholesale shredding that resulted in the destruction of unprocessed documents relating to the 9/11 investigations. A letter obtained by Time confirms that the Senate Judiciary Committee...