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...Retail Forward said they planned to spend less money on Christmas gifts this month than they did one year ago. The pullback is not just hitting middle market retailers, such as Dillards and Macys, but upscale stores like Saks Fifth Ave and Nordstrom as well. Saks, for example, saw same-stores sales decline 11.5% in the third quarter, followed by a 5.2% decrease in November...
...notice of the effect that economic downturns have on the online dating market during the recession in 2001, when the combination of Sept. 11 and the collapse of the dotcom bubble sent the demand for Internet dating soaring. "People were actively searching for community and companionship," Dahl says. "We saw a 200% increase in membership during that particular period...
Bernstein: Seriously, we think there's a metamorphosis under way and the credit mania stories that we saw in the last three, four, five, six years are unlikely to come back. We think overall we're going to be moving away from these credit-driven stories and much more towards self-financing stories...
...star, Rock Hudson, whom Mulligan had directed the year before in the romantic comedy Come September. But Pakula and Mulligan held out for Peck, the screen's flintiest rock of movie rectitude. Lee was in enthusiastic agreement, for she had based Atticus on her lawyer father and saw a kinship between him and Peck. On the first day of shooting she told him, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy," and Peck replied, "Harper, that's great acting." Forty years later, on the star's death, Lee emerged from seclusion to testify, "Gregory Peck...
...second half due to foul trouble—he ended up fouling out with four minutes left in the game—but the Crimson shot well enough without him. The team shot 78-percent from downtown in the second half, a key factor behind the surge that almost saw a Harvard victory. The Crimson’s foul trouble led to more than just Boehm sitting out much of the second half. The Owls were granted six free throws in the last 30 seconds of the contest, and by connecting on five of them they were able to outscore...