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• Retailers tiptoe between Christmas, holidays
As American shoppers embark on their annual shopping binge — amid the Grinchiest economy in decades — a prickly marketing question splits American consumers and stores: “Christmas” or “holiday”? Like shoppers Nash and Hesse, various ...
• The North Pole moves south in holiday displays
Turquoise and chili peppers make the season bright for Native American arts and crafts stores in Arizona. Pat Garner, manager of Red Rock Trading Post in Chandler, Ariz., says creating a display around Southwestern merchandise makes for the fun task ...
• Hospitals' preventive teams don't save lives
It's not harming people but there is not a clear additional benefit," said Chan, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rapid response teams are one of six recommendations made by the non-profit Institute for ...
• Brand-name drugs no better than generics
The brand-name drugs did not offer any advantage for patients' clinical outcomes in those studies, they wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Brand-name drugs for cardiovascular disease can be as much as a few dollars a pill ...
• GM: We need $12 billion to stay in business
The company’s plan also says it will cancel all management employees’ 2009 bonuses, scrap merit increases for its North American salaried employees next year, and sell its five corporate aircraft. And for this week’s appearances here, all three ...