Home Depot Inc. plans to eliminate 7,000 jobs while shutting down its smaller home improvement brands as the recession continues to batter the nation’s housing market. Its shares climbed more than 5 percent in morning trading.
Don’t think too much before purchasing that new car or television. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who deliberate about decisions make less accurate judgments than people who trust their instincts.
There’s Lip Stixx and Centerfolds and the Bliss Cabaret. There’s Diamond Dolls and Bare Assets and the Wild Gentlemen’s Club. In fact, there are, by one count, 43 strip clubs in the Tampa metropolitan area — one for each Super Bowl. And the week of Super Bowl XLIII is to Tampa’s naughty nightlife what Black Friday is to America’s shopping malls.
Big city mayors and the new presidential administration have made no secret of their intent to pass a new, permanent, greatly expanded ban of so-called “assault weapons.”
It looks like it’s trying to eat its own face, it could easily be guarding the gates of Hades if it had a couple more heads!
Michael Jackson will help develop his ground-breaking ”Thriller” video into a musical theater production, producers said on Monday. Jackson’s 1982 ”Thriller” album is the world’s biggest selling album ever.
Excerpt focuses on Torre’s final days as Yankee manager.
Apple could be waiting to time the launch of the new iMacs with the launch of Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system, which is expected to ship sometime around June.
A merger of Pfizer and Wyeth could trigger a wave of consolidation in the cash-rich pharmaceutical sector as drug makers look to diversify revenues in the face of competition from generic-drug rivals, analysts said. “Consolidation is a necessary evil in Big Pharma. This sector must consolidate now and Pfizer is the poster child.”
Karen McHale didn’t bother telling her husband last month that she had purchased two raffle tickets for the chance to win a million-dollar house in Edgewater. The Idaho Springs, Colo., woman viewed the 0 she spent as a contribution to a Maryland charity, not an opportunity to actually acquire…
