71.   Transportation issues, battered earlier in the year, gained that distinction, followed by investment banking and brokerage stocks and apparel retailers.

72.   We helped develop a testing method at one apparel retailer that predicts the sales of a product based on the early sales at a few carefully selected test stores.

73.   While some apparel retailers struggled in November, others excelled.

74.   Why has Talbots prospered while many other apparel retailers have gotten stuck with inventories of unwanted merchandise?

75.   Workers claimed the apparel retailer made employees work without pay writing thank-you notes to customers and delivering merchandise to their homes.

76.   Amid this climate, top management at two major apparel retailers is undergoing some restructuring.

77.   Apparel retailers continued to clear out leftover winter garb in order to stock their stores for Easter and early spring.

78.   Apparel retailers, particularly Gap Inc. and AnnTaylor, and the big department store chains fared the worst.

79.   Apparel retailers, particularly Gap Inc. and AnnTaylor Stores Corp., and the big department store chains fared the worst.

80.   NEW YORK -- It was a tough Christmas for many apparel retailers, and the warm weather that dried up sales of winter wear was just one reason.