Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...week after Christmas, and all through the retail sector, businesses hope that something a little more is stirring. Businesses, in fact, are hoping that the 2000 holiday shopping season isn't over - but that it's just getting ready for its second...
...Last year, sales from the week following Dec. 25 topped sales from Thanksgiving weekend, the season's traditional apex. And this time around, the discounting has already been set in motion by a season of relative slump. So bargains should be plentiful - along with bargain-hunters, for whom that ill-fitting plaid sweater is the perfect excuse to remedy Christmas gift oversights. Profit margins, however, will be slim...
...Florida (Housing designate Mel Martinez) and California (Veneman). He has also stretched his arms to embrace the two flanks of his party, represented on the GOP's left by Christine Whitman (who is heading for the the EPA) and on the right by John Ashcroft, who Bush named last week to be his attorney general. Bush had been thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats will concentrate their fire...
...Bush is still working on a Secretary of Defense: Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge was ruled out as too moderate; former Indiana Senator Dan Coats didn't wow Bush in a meeting last week; Reagan-era Pentagon aide Paul Wolfowitz is regarded more as policy expert than top-down manager. The Pentagon has proved to be tough to fill as well because it stands to reason that Bush will look first to vice- president Dick Cheney and Powell for advice on military matters...
HILLARY CLINTON, first lady. Hillary Clinton, Senator. Hillary Clinton, publishing magnate. The junior Senator from New York, who already has one current best seller (An Invitation to the White House), was the center of a bidding war last week over her memoirs, as publishers courted her with huge sums. In the end, she said yes to Simon & Schuster, reportedly for an $8 million advance. The publishing house will have to sell 1.5 million hard-cover copies to recoup that kind of money. Clinton has promised that she will spill the beans, in a "dignified" way, about the Clintons' eight years...