...awarded funds to support the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall exhibit, Certified Nursing Assistant program scholarships, a retail market study for the city of Little Falls and Oasis/Share A Meal's annual Morrison County Home Fix-up event.-30-

...company will introduce a new or redesigned product every six months for the next few years. But not all will be for the retail market, as Isuzu plans a stream of car-show concept vehicles to test styling and hardware.

...out Compaq models, IBM's ThinkPad, and the Macintosh iBook, the best-selling portable computer in the U.S. retail market during October, according to PC Data. PRINTERS: Go for an inkjet. Lasers cost more and most of us can't tell...

...their own cheap PCs shortly afterward. By last summer, most of the consumer computer manufacturers competing in the retail market -- Compaq, H-P, IBM, Acer and Packard Bell -- offered entry-level models priced at or near $600 to counter...

...percent and natural gas contracts tumbled 8.2 percent, although such changes generally take a few weeks to affect the retail market. ''It's a good day for the consumer,'' said Peter Gignoux, head of the petroleum desk at U.S. investment...

...citing weak holiday sales as the clincher for the decision. "You don't need to be an analyst to see that the retail market continues to be very unforgiving -- in fact, it's bruising," said John Oliver, a spokesman for GE Capital Services...

...consumers may reverse course and tighten the grip on their wallets, and that the effect will work its way back to weaker retail markets, lower production, less investing and a weak rather than robust stock market. In that situation, rich and poor...

...appliance-parts stores make an effort to sell to do-it-yourselfers; they're mostly geared to sell to technicians. The retail market was simply not being served." The only online company that attempts to provide a similar service is Sears, said...

...regional analysis manager of the state Economic Security Department. Despite an economic downturn in some sectors, the retail market has remained steady. Retail, which includes positions such as cashiers, clerks and jobs at fast-food outlets...

...look at what happens when a supercenter enters the retail market. Stone found the addition of a Wal-Mart Supercenter...Penney. Another area Wal-Mart looks at is non-retail markets if there is not interest in the closed store. Prospects...