Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good chunk of downtown Salt Lake City, 326,500 acres elsewhere, insurance companies with $383 million in assets, the Salt Lake newspaper, eleven radio stations and two TV stations, $36 million in Times-Mirror Co. shares (3% of the total company stock), and controlling interest in a department-store chain and a beet-sugar firm...
...invariably follows a period of rising prices. But the consumer seems to be becoming more like a Latin American, who spends out of fear that he had better buy it now or it will only cost more tomorrow. Says Marvin Brenner, owner of the Casual Village women's clothing chain in New Orleans: "People know that there will be another minimum wage hike in January, and it will cause wages to go up all along the line. The minimum wage very quickly affects clothing prices, so people are buying in large part as a hedge against inflation...
...species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores: "We've never sold so much fine china or silver. It's selling like crazy." Adds Lasker Meyer, senior vice president of the Houston-based Foley's chain: "Our big-ticket items have been very strong...
...growing conviction among Americans that costly goods retain real value, while mere money depreciates. More likely it indicates that Americans are also emulating the wise and worldly Europeans, buying fewer goods, but goods that have more class and durability. Jay Plotkin, vice president of Craig's ready-to-wear chain in Houston, argues: "People are looking for more permanence in their selections, not just faddish clothes. Retailers call this 'investment dressing...
...journey is precarious. Unless the proper hor mones are present in appropriate concentrations, setting the stage for ovulation and fertilization, this intricate chain of events will not be initiated. The egg will not burst from the ovary, the cervical mucus will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation...