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...construction-to the deeply depressed eleven-state Appalachia region where the unemployment rate has risen to 15%. The Senate approved a bill last year, but the House never got around to it because Democratic leaders could not muster enough votes in the waning hours of the session. Chances are brighter in the 89th, although Albert admits, "We may have some trouble...
...Brighter Breed. Straus has guided the store through a new era of change and crisis in retailing. The rise of discounters, the flight of customers to suburbia and the thickening traffic snarls have hurt all downtown stores, but they particularly challenged Macy's aging Herald Square store. The store was never the fanciest bazaar in Manhattan, and it has also become outmoded: less than 50% of its area can be devoted to selling space v. 75% in newer stores. Its sales, while huge, have barely changed in ten years. The store rings up a quarter of the Macy chain...
...mind his stores, Straus has brought along a breed of young merchants who are brighter and better-schooled than the intuitive amateurs of years past. Though he gives them plenty of freedom to exercise their talents, he constantly prods, needles and nags them. His aggressive concern for the consumer and his attention to the slightest details is both an inspiration and an irritant to insiders. After one recent exchange with Straus on the interoffice squawk box, David Yunich, the president of Macy's nine-store New York division, sighed: "Sometimes I'd like to confine the admiral...
...this Christmas season of 1964," the President said, "we can think of broader and brighter horizons than any who have lived before these times. For there is rising in the sky of the age a new star-the star of peace...
...believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children...