The biggest losers are likely to be the pricier department stores, speciality chains and luxury stores.
Smaller declines were also noted at grocery, speciality clothing and hardware stores, as well as online retailers.
Political comebacks are something of a family speciality, and there is a pretty good chance that at some time during the campaign Mr Giuliani will give her the opportunity to stage one.
Chef and owner Johnny Hernandez addresses me through the steam rising from arrachera en salsa de tomatillo, a central Mexican speciality cooked and served in a molcajete - a mortar hewn from volcanic basalt whose design dates back to Mesoamerican times.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) maintains a list of its 450 member dealers by region and speciality (212-757-9395).
The race card at each meeting features flat racing, winter-style trotting and the local speciality, skijoring -- an awkward combination of horse, human and skis which is a clear crowd favorite.
The evening meal consists of a dozen small plates, including spicy curries made from whatever was freshest at the market, such as young jackfruit, okra, pumpkin or bitter melon, and the Rawana speciality, a rich garlic curry simmered in a pressure cooker until soft and creamy.
When you look at the black women who shop at Fashion Fair and who shop at MAC and Bobbi Brown and all the speciality lines, I think we go there because we want to get that service and we want to be able to ask someone, you know, who's a professional what they would do.
The deceptively innocuous little number is made with Noilly Prat Ambre, a sexy, honey-hued speciality only available here and nowhere else in the world.
It contains news, business, sport and analysis but its speciality is the agenda-setting forensic interviewing of public figures by John Humphrys and his fellow presenters.
At Restaurante el Templete, the speciality is fish, succulent and perfectly prepared without any pretensions.
"The Senate isn't hearing those of us who are closest to the patient and work in the system every day, " Brent Eastman, the chairman of the American College of Surgeons, said in a statement for his organization and 18 other speciality societies opposing ObamaCare.
Warwick managing director and chief executive Bob Ellis said: "We see China as a great opportunity for our company both in terms of sourcing speciality chemicals for our European distribution businesses and as an emerging market for our detergent additives manufactured in Wales".
TD's speciality is sucking up deposits, a cheap and stable form of funding.
Unusual combinations of colour and effect were Duke Ellington's speciality.
ECONOMIST: Our pick of the best, including music by Abdullah Ibrahim
Car bombings and suicide attacks, an al-Qaeda speciality, are down from 175 in March to 90 last month.
More important, the technology will allow firms to outsource even more functions than at present and specialise in what they do best and then, in many cases, offer that speciality as a web service.
For me one of the most endearing aspects of France, Italy, and most other European countries is that citizens shop at speciality stores for food.
Its speciality is lulas e camaroes grelhados con arroz, the local grilled squid and prawns, with rice and a lime sauce.
The sheer number of patients allows surgeons to acquire world-class expertise in particular operations, and the generous backup facilities allow them to concentrate on their speciality rather than wasting their time on administration.
The Great Lakes chemical corporation, formerly known as Octel, has been in the town for 50 years, and is one of the world's leading producer of certain speciality chemicals for applications like water treatment.
And the second part of the book is devoted to India's speciality: ideas that have prevailed in theory, but not in practice, leaving reformers with nothing more to say, but plenty still to do.
Now two London-based Arab women, Rana Salam and Malu Halasa, are shining a spotlight on this little-known local speciality, with a new book called The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie.
In the March budget George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, announced a crackdown on schemes that help companies and individuals avoid paying stamp duty on property sales another Channel Islands speciality.
Despite his early setback in the tyre business, Mr Sabanci has made a speciality of joint-ventures with foreign partners, striking 17 since 1985 in sectors as diverse as cars and cigarettes.
应用推荐