Word: chaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...personal style. Or more precisely, personal style as interpreted by the growing number of retailers rushing to supply this fast-growing $17 billion-a-year market. Vendors, including Pottery Barn, Pier 1, the Bombay Co., Delia's and Target, are creating new products, catalogs and, in some cases, chains of specialty stores designed to capitalize on the decorating dreams of tweens and teens. "There's a kid quake going on, and spending on furniture is up," says Steve Farley, executive vice president of BombayKids, a year-old offshoot of the Bombay Co. The firm has just six kids' stores...
...room as part of the deal. "Mom told me I could do whatever I wanted, within reason," says Ellen. Her light-aqua room has a surfboard headboard from PBteen, pastel paper lamps from Pier 1 and a surfer-theme picture frame from Old Navy. Not everything is from a chain store. Ellen found a hula-girl lamp at a Galveston surf shop. Stepdad Terry Letteer approves of the overall look but admits there was a price: "My son got a big-screen TV for moving...
...those with less, each and every American must be respected as an individual. Individual rights are a fundamental basis for humanity. James R. Cantalupo, the CEO of McDonald’s, is just as much an individual as a cashier in one of his corporation’s chain restaurants. Though externally he probably leads a much different life, and financially he surely has far more in his pockets, he is no different fundamentally than any of the thousands of workers underneath him and should be treated identically...
...Brain break is not a solution to this problem—the options often aren’t substantial enough to sate serious hunger cravings. In any case, the food at brain break is generally unhealthy—as, of course, are the offerings at the pizza restaurants and chain stores that students are forced to visit in the late hours of the night...
...case of porn. But where Penthouse went wrong, and why they wound up going bankrupt, they didn’t diversify. We now have a retail chain called Hustler Hollywood which is extremely successful that sells all kinds of paraphernalia—gay gifts, sex toys, sort of a novelty shop more than anything else. And we have six Hustler Clubs, gentlemen’s clubs, basically strip clubs. We just opened one in Paris last fall. Our Internet websites are probably the most successful and profitable in the area. It’s the diversification that gives...