Over two-thirds of parents surveyed told researchers that they planned to purchase name-brand sneakers and jeans for their children before the first school bell rings this fall.

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" Other investors suing Bell for fraud point out that "a simple telephone call--let alone a regular practice of verifying the purchase orders--would have revealed that the retailers had not issued the purchase orders.

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