He also focused inward, selling off dull but profitable businesses such as circuit boards.
The terms of Borders' bankruptcy financing are intended to help it avoid the fate of retailers such as Circuit City Stores Inc.
Major retailers, such as Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ), are faltering as consumers rein in spending.
Many of the big retailers with websites, such as Circuit City and Sears, offer the option of picking up the goods in their shops.
Retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy were slammed by a 27% drop in sales of appliances and consumer electronics during the last holiday season.
The company faces stiff competition, which primarily comes from large format specialty retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy, and discount retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Target.
It is not a pretty picture, and while Dick Schulze may have once been a visionary, the specter of failed retailers such as Circuit City and Comp USA, as well as the current struggles of Radio Shack and Game Stop, makes one wonder whether any consumer electronics retailer will ever recapture the glory days of growth and lofty multiples.
And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
The Investigative Committee added that it was examining other theories such as a short circuit or arson.
Covas highlights the growth potential that ROG has through organic means, such as their booming circuit materials division.
Both have won on fast tracks like Italy's Monza and slower, highly technical tracks such as the street circuit in Monte Carlo.
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Even though big-box centers across the U.S. still are struggling with vacancies lingering from the liquidation of retailers such as Borders, Circuit City and Linens N' Things, the industry's average vacancy rate has declined in recent years.
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Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) retail stores, which now number 27, continue to multiply, which makes it a more potent competitor to its own customers such as CompUSA , Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people)--which is selling off its remaining Apple inventory--and others.
In circumstances such as this, our Circuit has found it appropriate to vacate the agency action on remand.
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So big national "bricks and clicks" retailers, such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart Stores and Target, collect taxes on most online sales.
There are certain Miraval-esque nuances, such as the seven-circuit labyrinth, which Root says was inspired by the cathedral at Chartres, in an area originally slated to be a walled outdoor garden.
Conventional CMOS image sensors mount the pixel section and analog logic circuit on top of the same chip, which require numerous constraints when wishing to mount the large-scale circuits such as measures to counter the circuit scale and chip size, measures to suppress noise caused by the layout of the pixel and circuit sections, and optimizing the characteristics of pixels and circuit transistors.
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As it is made entirely out of circuit board, users can solder components directly to it -- such as a light dependent resistor or a microphone to make it respond to sound.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Internet service providers such as Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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Other films have already been seen on the festival circuit at Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto - such as Michael Haneke's Cannes Palme d'Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
We have spent millions paying military lawyers to warm over the rules of the military tribunal, sprinkling into the mix a right here and a right there, such as the commendable effort to provide more transparency by piping in the proceedings via closed circuit TV to the Army base at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The staff were supposed to be doing tasks including venue perimeter security such as manning X-ray machines, searching people, searching vehicles, and operating closed-circuit television systems, G4S told CNN on Sunday.
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There are also over 300 Websites that still link to the decryption code, many beyond the reach of the MPAA. According to Gross, one defense the EFF will cite in the case's briefing stage is a recent 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision confirming that code qualifies as speech, and as such is protected by the First Amendment.
As an added blow, Circuit City--and its suppliers--has lost market share to rivals such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
Beyond the chamber circuit, the group has also appeared in nightclubs and with pop and jazz singers such as Luke Temple and Kurt Elling.
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