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...decade ago, European designer outlet malls fell into two categories: bad and worse. The handful that existed were mainly grubby places in France and Italy. Not surprisingly, they weren't too popular, and retailing experts said that proved Europeans were suspicious of discount malls and cut-rate goods. But why were American outlet centers crammed with holidaying Europeans snatching up bargain brands by the suitcaseload? Washington developer J.W. (Joe) Kaempfer has provided the answer: Old World shoppers appreciate browsing for top-label goods at deep-discount prices, even at home--so long as the place they do their shopping...
...blue- and white-color jobs at Sheaffer pens, Dupont, Dial, Wabash National and a state prison. A sweet, leafy residential area within walking distance of downtown and the riverfront park, for another. And Fort Madison has the dumb luck of being too small to attract the kind of super discount stores that work like neutron bombs on downtowns, leaving the buildings standing but destroying all life forms...
...rebels, who call themselves the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will also meet in Orlando. They will be lodged at Disney World, enemy territory for the main body of Baptists, who have been boycotting the park for three years because of its "Gay Days." The rebel baptists are getting a group discount...
...WNBA clearly coveted Edwards' star power, but it refused to pay her more than the $65,000-a-season rookie rate--about half Edwards' ABL pay and far less than the $200,000 she earned in Japan from 1989 to 1993. Legends are not available at a discount. "I don't care how you say it," Edwards explains. "As far as I'm concerned, we could not come to terms...
...have worked through these (and many other) issues, we would also recommend that CBS send its staff to us for at least a year of intensive sessions. Please send those poor 'Survivor' cast-offs as well. (We'd be happy to work out some sort of bulk-rate discount...