The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

For six decades, Best Western has brought quality customer service not only to our travel agent and corporate partners, but to the millions of guests who have made us their home on the road. With our 1946 room rate promotion, we have the perfect vehicle with which to honor our past, celebrate our present, and build our future.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

This was particularly impressive...especially given American Eagle's heavy Northeast and Midwest exposure, given the mid-February blizzard.

They've always had a distinctive look accented by a strong use of color, but also by innovative fabrics, use of design that always made it very popular with parents of small children. I think they just got away from some of the innovative parts of it. They got stuck on color, and the use of color just got to be something that passed its peak.

Clearly they have gone back to their heritage. It displays the strength of this season, which is the denim business. Much is made of a denim glut, but the fact is ... khaki was king. After three years of it, who needs another pair of tan pants?