Word: brennans
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Insignia items are even more popular at smaller schools, said Christine O'Brian, assistant merchandise manager of Brennan College Service, which manages many college stores in the Northeast. She said students at large schools do not feel as much allegiance to their alma maters as their small college counterparts...
Rehnquist also said that he would not comment on the recent dispute between Attorney General Edwin Meese and Supreme Court Justice William Brennan over the issue of judicial restraint because he had not read their speeches on the subject...
Even before he joined Sears, Roebuck in 1956 as a salesman in Madison, Wisc., there was little doubt that Edward Brennan would find a home in the company. Working for Sears was a tradition in Brennan's family: both his parents were buyers for the firm, as were a grandfather and two uncles. Brennan, however, rose much farther through the ranks of the largest U.S. retailer. When Chairman Edward Telling, 66, announced last week that he will retire at year's end, it came as no surprise that he named Brennan, Sears' president since 1984, as his successor...
...Brennan, 51, will head a firm whose core business, merchandising, has been in a slump. Sears' profits sagged 25% in the second quarter, and third- quarter earnings are likely to be down. Brennan is counting on a credit card that Sears launched last summer to help reverse that trend. Called Discover, the card enables holders to get auto loans, invest in savings instruments and, of course, to shop at Sears. Brennan expects to sign up at least 10 million subscribers. Retailing, meanwhile, still runs in his family. Watching Brennan's progress closely will be his brother Bernard, the president...
...newest religion cases, the court forcefully reaffirmed its commitment to the Lemon test, which makes three demands on any religiously oriented legislation: that it have a secular purpose, that it neither advance nor inhibit religion and that it avoid "excessive entanglement" between government and religion. Justice Brennan's application of the test in the New York school case left officials in what dissenting Justice William Rehnquist called a "catch-22." City school officials argued that they took special care not to advance religion by closely monitoring their remedial public school teachers. But this very monitoring process, Brennan concluded, created excessive...