Retail Industry
Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedWashington goes back to work: Congress, President have long agenda, little time. (Capitol Retail Report).
Do-It-Yourself Retailing, October, 2002
Congress and the president returned from a month-long summer vacation looking at a long agenda and a short timeframe. They settled back into Washington nine weeks--about 20 working days--before the mid-termelection--an election that has become critically important to Capitol Hill and the White House.
Republicans control the House of Representative by a slim 11-seat majority. Minority leader Richard Gephardt (DMO) has all but staked his career on getting enough Democrats elected to take that majority away and get himself chosen speaker of the House.
Democrats control the Senate by an even slimmer one-seat majority. Republicans want to take back that seat. If they do, the Senate would once again be evenly divided with 50 Republicans, 49 Democrats and one...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
