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...AlixPartners report released earlier this month showed a clear "shift to thrift" among the 7,700 Americans surveyed. The report found 66% of department-store shoppers, 55% of apparel consumers and 53% of electronics shoppers had switched retailers to find lower-priced goods. Consumers who used to shop for "the best" are now settling for products that are "good enough" with a lower price tag, the report said. (See pictures of retailers that have gone out of business...
...People think that Americans are notorious consumers and will shift very quickly back to their old habits, but we're not so sure about that," says Eshelman. He speculates that because of the number of jobs that would need to be added each month, it will likely take five to 10 years for employment to return to 2007 levels. In December 2009, the country's seasonally adjusted employment was at 129.5 million, down 8.5 million jobs from its peak in December 2007. Even if 150,000 jobs were added every month, it would take five years to return...
...down to your mid-thigh. Otherwise, it kind of looks like a sack of potatoes. Another thing that I think is great for women to wear is a dress instead of pants if you have a big butt. Because if you are wearing an A-line dress or a shift dress, it will go right past your butt all the way down to your knee, and your rear end doesn't look so prominent. Don't put a big cinching belt on that focuses on your rear...
Arnóbio “Binho” Marques, who is currently the governor of Acre, praised the state’s shift in focus over the last 12 years to maintaining biodiversity instead of simply stripping the Amazon of its resources to develop the area...
...Shifting Keystone Nowhere is the political shift more evident than in Pennsylvania, a quintessential swing state, where Specter now finds himself in the political fight of his life. Last year's party switch has left him exposed on both his left and his right in a 2010 political environment that has turned decidedly toxic for incumbents. This is despite the fact that the Democratic establishment has locked arms around its 80-year-old convert. After Specter became a Democrat, he spent the next few months wooing party officials in all 67 Pennsylvania counties and reminding them of all the federal...