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Despite the progress, not everyone has as much faith in the department store's future as Elfers and Baker do. "Lord & Taylor is a problem child, a tarnished brand, and has a long way to go," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail-consulting firm. "I am not sure, in the current competitive climate, that Lord & Taylor can stand on its own two feet and be a survivor." Davidowitz points to the fact that Baker paid top dollar for a minnow in a sea of powerful retail companies. The store is loaded with debt while seeking...
There is no problem moving jewelry forward. "We've sold more very, very expensive pieces than ever before," Katz says. One 100-year-old piece, the "Sautoir," a diamond, pearl and platinum necklace created in Belle Epoque Paris by Cartier, has been selected by jewelry collector extraordinaire Lee Siegelson to be sold as one of many special 100th anniversary items (in this case, celebrating the centennial of Neiman Marcus) this fall...
...team is certainly not lacking in talent and experience. With seven returning starters and another week of practice, the ‘D’ should have no problem falling back into its championship-caliber ways...
...think everyone would like to see them run the football,” Murphy said. “But Brown always does a good job mixing it up, they’ll do a great job with the play action pass, and they’ve given us problems.”What also might be a problem for the Crimson is the logistical change that comes with a night game. The team adjusted its last pre-game practice yesterday to 7:30 p.m. to mirror game conditions, but it’ll take more than that for the players...
...clients. (Citing schedule conflicts, Giuliani eventually quit the group without ever attending a meeting. His campaign now says he resigned because he was planning to run for President and didn't want to create a conflict.) "The goal is to demonstrate that the Republican front-runner has an enormous problem when it comes to the big issue facing the country - the war in Iraq," says MoveOn's Pariser. "And since Giuliani chose to insert himself into this story, we thought it was important to get out the fact that he bailed out on the [Iraq Study Group...