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Founded in 1962, K mart was the brainchild of Harry Cunningham, the former chairman of S.S. Kresge Co., a stagnant chain of central-city dime stores. Convinced that Kresge's inner-city stores held little promise, Cunningham persuaded the company's board to invest $80 million in some 60 suburban K mart outlets. In four years, K mart's sales overtook those of Kresge stores, and in 1977 Kresge was renamed in honor of its successful spinoff...
...policy debate than an explosion of name-calling unusually bitter even for a presidential campaign. Unusually misleading, too. Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter fought over the credit for a promising idea for release of the U.S. hostages in Tehran, though actually the idea seems to have been mainly the brainchild of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...
Edward Montgomery, assistant head tutor of Economics, said yesterday that while the idea for the meetings sprang from students' comments and criticisms before the Economics Department visiting committee last November, "the idea to revamp the system" was the brainchild of Donald W. Walls, head tutor in Economics...
...school is the brainchild of Mike DeSisto, 40, a bearded and pudgy teacher turned therapist. For eleven years, DeSisto was the salaried director of Lake Grove, a Long Island school where he developed his therapeutic program. Fired after he was accused by the Lake Grove trustees of trying to break up the school, the strong-willed DeSisto announced plans to found his own school; and most of the faculty and student body quit to go with him. Parents of the kids were loyal too. DeSisto bought the Stockbridge property with tuition money they paid in advance...
...opening series, a fine-tuned Crimson offense slipped down the field under the able guidance of the heady St. John. Using a Restic brainchild--the triple slot formation--Harvard baffled Dartmouth by lining up four receivers to one side and sending the fifth man in motion to that side...