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What could account for such a collapse? Some factors were plaguing the entire retail industry. A hot summer and late Labor Day meant that the normal back-to-school spending sprees never really revved up. Some shoppers, it seems, were just not sure what they wanted to buy. Many were wondering, for example, if the miniskirt was really back. Once inventories piled up, stores had to cut prices to keep their merchandise moving. That depressed earnings. The Limited's stock price dropped 27% over the past month, and the Dress Barn was down...
...direction, says Robertson, that steered him through negotiations to buy a defunct Virginia TV station. Starting with only $70 in cash, he created the Christian Broadcasting Network and other enterprises, such as CBN University. By the early 1970s he was one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in the rapidly growing Christian broadcasting field. Last year CBN reported $183 million in donations and revenues and employed some 4,000 people...
...series stands well apart from most other current family shows, with their contrived plots and wisecracking tots. Parents on The Cosby Show are figures of calm authority, not boobs, and episodes revolve around the realistic trivia of everyday family life: Dad goes out to buy a new car, or a daughter tries to explain her bad grades. Such plots, of course, are simply a throwback to slice-of-family-life shows of the '50s and '60s like Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, and Cosby's success may partly reflect nostalgia for those simpler old times...
Some friends of mine and I have come up with a great plan for making money in the Persian Gulf: now that so many naval ships are stationed there, it stands to reason that there will be a lot of thirsty sailors, too. Where will they buy beer...
There is "a contradition which the governor hasn't really dealt with," Zabarsky said. "Health insurance is only as good as the health care you can buy...