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...gathering of some 3,000 store managers, merchandising professionals and sales representatives, he conducted a very informative and influential discussion on what they could do to improve these two fundamentals. These folks know best what customers are buying. Nelson's emphasizing just how important their individual store performance is to the overall corporate performance brought home some key points. If you change your mix of merchandise and emphasize high-margin products that turn rapidly, comp sales (same-store sales compared with last year) will improve. Not only will you and your store perform better but so will the total business...
...hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot of bereft kids, most of them singing, nearly all of them smiling. Stick a camera in any child's face, and that's what he'll do: perform, to please the gawking outsider. After a while this approach looks like exploitation. It's sad to say, but one of the world's great directors has produced a minimalist minstrel show...
...former cruise-ship crooner will soon have plenty of chances to perform on the international stage. After opening at next month's nato summit in Brussels, he will warm up at the E.U summit in Göteborg, then step into the spotlight as host of July's G8 meeting in Genoa. Whatever happens, Il Cavaliere is unlikely to make as big a spectacle as he did when Italy hosted a U.N. conference on organized crime in Naples in 1994: with the world's most powerful leaders looking on, Berlusconi was served with papers putting him under formal investigation...
...Sommers says she may attempt to perform a follow-up study on the writing experience of the class of 2001 after graduation...
...found that in at least five, she had made outright errors or overstepped "the acceptable limits of forensic science." Gilchrist got convictions by matching hair samples with a certainty other forensic scientists found impossible to achieve. She also appears to have withheld evidence from the defense and failed to perform tests that could have cleared defendants...