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...shirts and jeans) or the Structures division of the Limited (fashionable casual wear), both of which have opened in the past five years, are going after a new generation of customers who want cheap prices and have yuppie pretensions. That's partly why niche retailers like Crate & Barrel, which specializes in affordable housewares, expect to continue their rapid growth. Gordon Segal, the founder of Crate & Barrel, predicts an 8% sales gain this Christmas for his stores...
...from nine to three. Ignoring bureaucratic protocol, he and Kaiser-Hill excavated toxic soils from an area known as Ryan's Pit without preparing exhaustive studies. Silverman bristles at the seemingly arbitrary personnel rules he's supposed to follow. "Why does it take 16 people to move a single barrel from one building to another?" he asks rhetorically...
...crowd's good-natured cheering seems to indicate that the majority are rooting for the cons not to get trampled. Warden Burl Cain hopes his men, with their sometimes accomplished bull wrestling and barrel jumping, are leaving a lasting impression. "These inmates don't have horns and a fork and a tail," says Cain. "The rodeo shows that they can be rehabilitated--that they're real people...
...information supplied by the doubles dealt with Russian aircraft, missile and radar capabilities. But Pentagon officials are privately dubious that they'll be able to pin billions of dollars in waste on the CIA reports. The Defense Department squanders money on unneeded weapons mostly because of pork-barrel politics, interservice rivalries and lobbying by contractors...
...benefits are not limited to parents and kids in the houses. For many students, cooing at the babies in the dining halls or saying hello as older children barrel through halls on their tricycles is one of the best parts of house life--although students say they're glad to send the kids back to their parents...