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Nordstrom department stores, a 60-store U.S. chain concentrated mostly in the Far West, are renowned for the fine customer service provided by their seemingly tireless salespeople. But does Nordstrom's corporate culture have a dark side? The Washington State department of labor has ruled that the company illegally pressured employees to perform many work-related duties "off the clock." Nordstrom was ordered to pay its Washington clerks two years' worth of overtime, which could amount to several million dollars...
...going to find the one man who is absolutely right for you," declares Helena Amram in ads touting her chain of matchmaking services. But the high- profile doyenne of dating has a date of her own -- in New York State's Supreme Court, where Attorney General Robert Abrams filed a suit last week against several of Amram's firms. The accusation: her clients paid wildly inflated prices for nightmarish nights on the town...
...remember one vivid phrase or image from George Bush's recent State of the Union message? Probably not. And a big reason, quite simply, is that Peggy Noonan did not write it. For if words are the weapons of politics, then Noonan -- whether nervously chain-smoking at her computer in Ronald Reagan's White House or minding her baby son at home as she created the "kinder, gentler" persona for George Bush -- commanded a battalion...
Contraception, invented in the Middle Ages, came in two varieties: plate metal and chain link...
...year-old pro-life group won national notoriety by organizing blockades of abortion clinics around the country. Terry, convicted on misdemeanor charges of trespassing during a 1988 Atlanta-clinic protest, announced the closing last week upon his release from a Georgia prison, where he spent four months on a chain gang. The group buckled, he says, under the weight of a $50,000 lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women...