Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsored by Heath with the purpose of abolishing retail price fixing, which enables manufacturers to set the consumer price of their products. Heath argues that his measure will both encourage competition and cut consumer costs. A group of rebellious Tory backbenchers retort that small shopkeepers can only compete with chain stores by keeping their prices at the artificially high RPM levels. The backbenchers are less concerned with free enterprise and modernizing the British economy than with the votes of the 500,000 small shopkeepers who are registered Tories; many of the rebels have a shaky majority in their home constituencies...
...years, the death of the Houston Press has been merely a matter of time. By last week the time had come. For a reported $4,100,000, the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain sold its weakest link to Houston's other afternoon daily, the Chronicle...
...Macy's, Gimbels, Neiman-Marcus, Atlanta's Rich's. The biggest dynasty of all is perpetuated by the descendants of German immigrant Simon Lazarus, who settled in Columbus in 1850 and started a store that eventually blossomed into Federated Department Stores, the largest U.S. department-store chain. Federated's 60 outlets include New York City's Abraham & Straus and Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Miami's Burdine's and Houston's Foley's. Last week President Ralph Lazarus, 50, interrupted a Hawaiian vacation to negotiate a deal...
...always been recognized in the private pre-Ovidian Cheever. "He is a magician," says his friend Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, recalling the old women who lurked in the back parlors of the Negro section of Oklahoma City where he grew up. "He can take a watch chain or something and tell you the whole man." Even Mary Cheever subscribes to the theory that her husband is not as other men. She recounts with some awe the story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with...
...valid prayer: "Let us pray for all those killed or cruelly wounded on thruways, expressways, freeways, and turnpikes. Let us pray for all those burned to death in faulty plane landings, mid-air collisions and mountainside crashes. Let us pray for all those wounded by rotary lawn mowers, chain saws, electric hedge clippers and other power tools. Let us pray for all alcoholics measuring out the days that the Lord hath made in ounces, pints and fifths...