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Last year, on a fine October Sunday morning in New Orleans-the day after Edwin Edwards was elected to his third four-year term as Governor of Louisiana-the conversation over breakfast at Brennan's turned to campaign debts. In all, Edwards had spent roughly what the U.S. had paid for the Louisiana Purchase. About $4.4 million in loans from contributors remained outstanding. Somebody suggested taking everybody to South America in return for forgiveness of the loan. Somebody else suggested France. Two weeks ago everybody went to France...
Justice William Brennan, in a vigorous dissent, declared, "The court is simply deluding itself, and also the American public, when it insists that those defendants . . . condemned to death have been selected on a basis that is neither arbitrary nor capricious." The lack of proportionality reviews is only a small problem, Brennan went on, compared with that of racial discrimination...
...looked like a bomb went off in there [the building]," said Kieran Brennan, a private contractor working for the Robert Banker Real Estate firm...
...streets from San Francisco's Union Square to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. An estimated 30% increase in store traffic as compared with last year has created three-deep layers of customers around display cases and has made parking spaces as scarce as Cabbage Patch dolls. Said Edward Brennan, chairman of the Sears merchandise group, after touring a company store in Oak Brook, Ill.: "It was wall-to-wall people. It made me feel great...
...firm has 24 million active credit-card holders (more than American Express) and an additional 12 million catalogue customers. Sears wants to entice current customers to buy more once they are in the store. So far the company thinks it has succeeded. In the new stores, according to Brennan, "the average transaction per customer is substantially higher. In towels, washcloths, carpeting, toilet covers, for instance, people are picking up armfuls." At new stores in King of Prussia, Pa., and Valley Stream, N.Y., sales per sq. ft. are projected to be 50% higher than at newly opened traditional stores...