Да!

Bloomberg Top -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, may expand into Russia to take advantage of its fragmented retail market and sell merchandise more cheaply, Treasurer Charles Holley said.

“It’s an emerging market where there’s not a lot of organized retail,” Holley said today in a telephone interview from Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-Mart’s hometown. “What we have to bring to bear with our merchandise capabilities and pricing and saving people money could play very well in that market.”

Да!

Bloomberg Top -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, may expand into Russia to take advantage of its fragmented retail market and sell merchandise more cheaply, Treasurer Charles Holley said.

“It’s an emerging market where there’s not a lot of organized retail,” Holley said today in a telephone interview from Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-Mart’s hometown. “What we have to bring to bear with our merchandise capabilities and pricing and saving people money could play very well in that market.”

Оскорбительно для женщин!

What Do Women Want in a Laptop?

The computer maker Dell recently took the wraps off a new Web site geared toward women called Della, which advertises Dell’s line of Inspiron Mini 10 netbooks.

The site originally featured tech “tips” that recommended calorie counting, finding recipes and watching cooking videos as ways for women to get the most from a laptop. The resounding blowback prompted the company to amend the Web site, along with a note that stated, “Some of you have read this article over the last several days & will notice a few modifications. You spoke, we listened. Thank you for your ongoing feedback.”

Women looking at multi colored minis:

Оскорбительно для женщин!

What Do Women Want in a Laptop?

The computer maker Dell recently took the wraps off a new Web site geared toward women called Della, which advertises Dell’s line of Inspiron Mini 10 netbooks.

The site originally featured tech “tips” that recommended calorie counting, finding recipes and watching cooking videos as ways for women to get the most from a laptop. The resounding blowback prompted the company to amend the Web site, along with a note that stated, “Some of you have read this article over the last several days & will notice a few modifications. You spoke, we listened. Thank you for your ongoing feedback.”

Women looking at multi colored minis:

Викторина!

Дано: двое сотрудников XXX обвиняются в [таинственном преступлении] "insider trading", а руководство XXX -- в создании атмосферы, где такое стало возможным.

Kotz, who told Congress last year he was examining whether frequent trades by the pair broke agency rules, referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington after finding evidence the bets might amount to insider trading, he wrote in the March 3 report released by Senator Charles Grassley. Both [employees] still work for XXX and denied improper conduct.

The report faults XXX for inadequately monitoring trades by employees and relying on an “honor system.” The [XXX employees] frequently discussed stocks at work, traded in at least one company [involved with XXX business] and didn’t properly disclose some transactions, it says. One [XXX employee] made 247 trades in the two years ending January 2008, and the other made 14.

The XXX “has essentially no compliance system in place” to ensure employees don’t abuse the “tremendous amount of nonpublic information they have at their disposal,” Kotz wrote.

The XXX is already working on steps to guard against potential misconduct, and the report doesn’t conclude that insider trading occurred, XXX spokesman John Nester said.

Спрашивается: в какой индустрии работает XXX?

Викторина!

Дано: двое сотрудников XXX обвиняются в [таинственном преступлении] "insider trading", а руководство XXX -- в создании атмосферы, где такое стало возможным.

Kotz, who told Congress last year he was examining whether frequent trades by the pair broke agency rules, referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington after finding evidence the bets might amount to insider trading, he wrote in the March 3 report released by Senator Charles Grassley. Both [employees] still work for XXX and denied improper conduct.

The report faults XXX for inadequately monitoring trades by employees and relying on an “honor system.” The [XXX employees] frequently discussed stocks at work, traded in at least one company [involved with XXX business] and didn’t properly disclose some transactions, it says. One [XXX employee] made 247 trades in the two years ending January 2008, and the other made 14.

The XXX “has essentially no compliance system in place” to ensure employees don’t abuse the “tremendous amount of nonpublic information they have at their disposal,” Kotz wrote.

The XXX is already working on steps to guard against potential misconduct, and the report doesn’t conclude that insider trading occurred, XXX spokesman John Nester said.

Спрашивается: в какой индустрии работает XXX?

Хихи

CNN -- Сообщают из штаба генерала Пауэлла: [The abusive interrogation program's] principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda," Wilkerson wrote in The Washington Note, an online political journal.

Хихи

CNN -- Сообщают из штаба генерала Пауэлла: [The abusive interrogation program's] principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda," Wilkerson wrote in The Washington Note, an online political journal.