Word: chained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Meese commission's pronouncement on pornography, the Justice Department began indicting book and video stores around the country. Selling $100-worth of obscene material was all that was needed to take away a whole chain of shops...
...roof has been repaired, and the staff has thumbed gingerly through crumbling back issues, gathering fragments of history to print again. The Adair County Free Press of Greenfield, Iowa, is just about ready for its 100th birthday next week. Same newspaper, same family of editors, no sellout to a chain, no fortunes made or lost, circulation steady at 3,200 in a county of 9,500 and a town of 2,200. The back issues form a tapestry of small events, a century of stories of children's birthdays, club meetings, 4-H calves, men and women going...
...other foreign investors are in trouble largely because they overreached. Burdened with debt, Canadian mogul Robert Campeau was forced last month to relinquish control of his retailing empire and put the 17-store Bloomingdale's chain up for sale. In August Australian raider George Herscu put his U.S. retailing subsidiary into bankruptcy after becoming overwhelmed by its $1.2 billion takeover debt. Herscu may well have to sell Bonwit Teller (stores: 16) and B. Altman (7), which he acquired...
...network series. The studio has eleven such programs in production, including Who's the Boss? and Designing Women. The division has a library of 23,000 TV episodes from which Sony can pick candidates for syndication and videocassette sales. Columbia also owns the 820-screen Loew's theater chain...
...Commonwealth Day, whose enrollment in its new Boston location has dwindled to eight students, the political chain of events touched off by their departure is irrelevant: The school has left the city, and Myette says he is unsure whether it will even consider trying to return...