Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter her new lawn-distance neighbor. Hannah Mae Bindler (Eileen Brennan), a Lone-Star State emigree, is wearing a garish outfit, and her accessories are an unstoppered tongue and the musk of a rampant libido. Culture clash soon gives way to kaffeeklatsch. Maude reveals that her husband is off on one of his adulterous secretarial safaris. Despite having suffered the occasional infidelity, Hannah Mae claims that her husband Carl Joe "don't take a breath unless I say, 'Carl Joe, breathe...
...reason to think Innis was unusually disoriented or particularly susceptible to observations about the welfare of the handicapped children; the officers' "offhand remarks" therefore should not be viewed as a form of interrogation or its "functional equivalent." Two of the dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, felt the remarks should indeed have been read as an appeal to the suspect's conscience. But Justice John Paul Stevens went further, rejecting the majority's definition of interrogation as a "plain departure" from Miranda's principles...
...outdiscount the discounters, the nation's largest retailer (1979 sales: $17.5 billion) is returning to its tried and true, highly successful selling formula: aiming straight for the charge accounts of America's middle class. The artist picked to give Sears its beautiful new visage is Edward Brennan, 46, who was installed earlier this month as the second youngest president in the firm's 94-year history...
...push Sears back to basics, Chairman Edward Telling reached beneath the top layer of senior management to pluck Brennan from the regional office in Atlanta, where he ran 150 Southern stores. The new chief executive officer is a third-generation Sears man. His grandfather started as a Sears plumbing and heating supply buyer in 1898, and his father was a slacks buyer in the 1940s. Brennan began his company career at 22, as a salesman in the Madison, Wis., store. Then he hopscotched to Sears outlets around the company and up through the organization. Brennan, who still wears Sears suits...
...Brennan's task will be made more difficult by the growing recession. Last month retail sales were down a sharp 1%. With its emphasis on easily deferrable big-ticket purchases like appliances, Sears could be hurt harder than most. All of Edward Brennan's company breeding and 24 years of training will be needed to help the Grande Dame of Retailing recover the attractiveness of her youth...