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...cheap digital watches (1976) and affordable, albeit primitive, home computers (1978). 1981 was a banner year, with the debuts of the camcorder and the CD player. By 1973, CES had become so popular, organizers decided to put it on twice a year. It was held in Chicago from 1972 until 1977, when it started alternating shows between the Windy City and Las Vegas. It's been anchored firmly in Las Vegas once a year since...
...financial sectors were once gold-star postal customers, but since their cash flows have slowed to a trickle, their direct-mail marketing campaigns have all but dried up. Mortgage direct mailings declined 57% from the first quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of 2008, according to the Chicago-based mail and advertising tracker Mintel Comperemedia. And credit card offers by mail sagged 28% from the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008, dropping to their lowest point in more than three years. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...appeared several times before the Supreme Court, and she is also known in some legal circles as a highly skilled litigator.Despite Sullivan’s greater experience litigating, Kagan has a longer history with Obama, stretching back to their shared time on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in the early and mid-1990s. Kagan has supported Obama, a Law School graduate, in the past as well.But Kagan’s relationship with Obama may not have been a deciding factor. “Sullivan took herself out of consideration well over a month...
...sure they’re celebrating in New Haven,” said Brian Leiter, a legal blogger and law professor at the University of Chicago. “She did bring a sleeping giant back to life on the market for faculty. It made things tough for lots of places...
...been empty for five months, the longest I can recall in my 17 years living here. The house sold swiftly last summer. But the new owners recently put it back on the market because the sale of their current Des Moines house fell through when prospective buyers in Chicago couldn't sell their house. So the beauty is for sale again...