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...Sweater: Banana Republic...
...Does lighting come from the sky or the ground?" I quiz a physicist hurrying home in the rain. "Are people more like monkeys or apes?" I ask a biologist finishing off a banana. "How do you get stuff to explode?" I query a chemist shooting-'em-up on a Super Nintendo. This is great fun--and occasionally even educational when I stay awake long enough for the answers ("Both," "Apes" and "Shut up! I'm at the end of the %#@$! level," respectively...
Traditionally, Sweethearts have been available in six different flavors: banana (yellow), orange (orange), lemon (green), grape (purple), cherry (pink) and wintergreen (white). This year, NECCO added a chocolate heart...
...perplexing strategic predicament. The company's higher-priced, better-goods Banana Republic stores as well as its cheeky, value-priced Old Navy outlets have been clicking. So, as the company's mid-priced brand, Gap had to be careful about remaking itself without skimming sales from the other stores. In fact, the company's 27% sales jump in the fourth quarter, to $3.86 billion, was powered by those other brands. And by most standards, Gap Inc.'s 7% increase in company-wide comparable store sales in 1999 would be considered more than respectable. But it looks positively threadbare next...
...vice president of sales for Susquehanna Radio Corp. and mother of 18-month-old Samantha. Kahn used to buy her basics at the Gap and pair them with a closetful of Richard Tyler and Giorgio Armani suits. But now her designer duds share space with her cashmere and wool Banana Republic sweaters and Old Navy nylon pants and fleece shirts. "Banana Republic has that grownup, luxurious merchandise," she says. She then opens her dresser drawer to expose a pile of Old Navy pajama pants, better known to Old Navy shoppers as Just Bottoms. "Old Navy is what the Gap used...