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Some Goliaths have stumbled by getting hooked on growth and expanding far afield from their core business. Sears took its eye off retailing in the 1980s to venture into stocks and bonds and real estate. As Sears diversified, highly focused retailers ate its bread and butter. Wal-Mart offered low prices, while Nordstrom boasted personal service. Now, with its flagship Sears stores in trouble, the company is getting back to basics by selling its Dean Witter brokerage house and most of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm. Sears is not the only respected name to get burned in the financial...
...outside, Arkansas may seem friendly and tolerant. But the color line is starkly drawn. At my high school, for example, Blacks and whites parked in different parking lots and ate lunch at different places. Even the churches in Pleasant Valley are all white...
...start to finish, a perfect act, and a perfect parody of a rock concert. We ate it up. Dean thrashed his head in headbanger circles as he played. Gene wandered to the rear of the stage and set up his microphone. "I'm doin' backup vocals on this one," he explained. They did "Tick," noisier and faster than the album's version. They did "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," with more vocal tricks by Gene. They did songs nobody knew, and songs everybody was requesting. They talked to the audience the whole time. We talked back...
...Republicans, as they had in the past three elections. Even in this right- leaning group, however, the Democratic ticket of two born-again Southern Baptists made inroads, drawing more white Evangelicals than either Michael Dukakis or Walter Mondale had attracted. Partly for that reason, and partly because Ross Perot ate into Bush's support, the Democrats were able to reclaim parts of the South and Southwest. Those regions had been the stoutest of Republican strongholds for most of the past quarter-century, since Richard Nixon perfected his Southern strategy...
...approximately 40 listeners ate dinners of fish and macaroni, Berkowitz said that thought about Jewish law leads inevitably to thought about political philosophy...