Retailers can be expected to speed up a wave of store closures, restructurings and job cuts in the coming weeks, hoping to get a fresh start in early 2009 after more than a year of recession. Many store chains have waited for the holiday shopping season to end before taking more aggressive steps, but will
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Britain's Gordon Brown will use his New Year address to call for a "coalition for change" with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in a speech intended as a rallying call to Britons. Brown, who frequently uses the comparison of the Second World war to describe the current global financial crisis, will tell Britons they have the
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. No prizes on offer. Just a chance to test your own and family or friends’ knowledge of food and wine. The answers are at the bottom of the next page. (See PDF attachment of this week's pages) 1. Which one of these is not or was not a great chef? (a) Escoffier (b) Cesar
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Post-holiday hangover cure It is just possible that some readers of lesser will-power may wake up one morning during the holiday season thinking that some kind of awful metal works had taken up residence at the back of their head. “It seemed such a good idea at the time”, we all say when recalling drinking
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EDITORIAL On behalf of my publisher and all those who have helped in one way or another to bring this weekly Pot-Pouri to you for another year, may I wish you “The Compliments of the Season”. I shall not concern you with worries about water, the economy, global warming or financial melt-down, but look back
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No one blamed for beating of African student The ugly side of racism has resurfaced in a place where state officials and public leaders had hoped it would be swept under the carpet – in our schools. One would have expected the current administration to learn from the fiasco that saw a killer escape from
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. The perception that the new generation of workers, the ‘millennials’ who entered the workforce after July 1, 2000, are disloyal and will reject traditional work practices is a myth, according to a new global report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The ‘Millennials at work’ research is part of PwC’s ‘Managing tomorrow’s people’ series and is based
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Microsoft is expected to launch the latest version of its Internet Explorer browser, IE8, some time in March or April, with many improvements that will make it simpler, faster and safer to surf the Net. The new browser, currently available in beta mode, is the result of 24 months’ of research and development, according to
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Microsoft will focus its 2009 business platforms on efforts to help companies overcome the economic impact of the current crisis, on a new software strategy for the next few years and more efficient Internet usage. Michael Hartmann, Senior Director and Business and Marketing Officer for Central and East Europe, Microsoft, told a press briefing in
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Research In Motion has delivered a quarterly profit in line with forecasts and a rosier-than-expected outlook that reflects strong holiday sales of its BlackBerry smartphones even as the global economy slows. Investors were prepared for the fiscal third-quarter results, most of which RIM disclosed earlier this month. More important was the outlook for the current
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