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Despite its fast growth, Reyers still manages to keep service on a personal level, even on Saturdays, when the store is chaotic. Customers select styles from shoes on display, but then one of Reyers' 88 salespeople is there to help with the fitting. One of them is Larry Joltin, 41, the hottest shoe salesman in America. Joltin sells nearly $500,000 worth of men's shoes a year, roughly a pair every 15 minutes. In 1982, he walked away with the National Shoe Retailers Association award. His $424,848 worth of sales put him so far ahead...
...enlighten him. But he seems to learn something from them all the same. Black Africa does not operate according to rules that will submit to logic. Naipaul is appalled by the dirt and degradation he observes, as any foreign tourist might be, but he also senses, well beneath the chaotic surface, "a beautifully organized society." Coming from someone else, this perception might seem dopey or romantic. Naipaul's authority, which this book reinforces, makes the judgment inescapable. He not only tells the West what it wants to hear, he is uniquely born, trained and qualified to convey information that...
...then Mulroney had already assembled a nationwide political machine and raised an estimated $14 million. After years of relying on the Trudeau name to win elections, the Liberals found themselves with an organization in disarray and a bankroll of only $2 million. So chaotic was the Turner team that the Prime Minister replaced his campaign manager halfway through the race. "Part of the problem is that you must have a horse and a jockey," says a Turner associate. "John tried to be both...
...pretty Chaotic," recalls John B. Fox Jr. '59, dean of the College, siding, "we didn't know which system was right...
...Neill, who replied, "Send the damn thing over. We'll go to conference." Despite the obituaries, the bill was thus not yet dead, but it was not healthy either. Only a starkly simple political reality had jeopardized the long-awaited attempt to do something about America's chaotic situation along the Mexican border: each party figures it had better win Texas if it is to have a good chance of winning the presidency in November; 20% of all Texans have Hispanic surnames. -By Ed Magnuson...