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Word: discoverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brennan, 51, will head a firm whose core business, merchandising, has been in a slump. Sears' profits sagged 25% in the second quarter, and third- quarter earnings are likely to be down. Brennan is counting on a credit card that Sears launched last summer to help reverse that trend. Called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive: Suite a Smooth Transition At Sears | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, fears about toxic wastes continue to grow. Each day more and more communities discover that they are living near dumps or atop ground that has been contaminated by chemicals whose once strange names and initials--dioxin, vinyl chloride, PBB and PCB, as well as such familiar toxins as lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Another kind of help came from Nancy Reagan, who arrived in Mexico City with a U.S. Treasury check for $1 million as a down payment on further American relief efforts. During a four-hour, 15-minute visit to the capital, she spent 20 minutes with President de la Madrid at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Miracles Amid the Ruins | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

*Discover the range of jobs within one organization: IBM, Proctor & Gamble, Merrill Lynch.

Author: By Linda Chernick, | Title: How do I make the best of the day? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Perhaps even Pete would admit that he takes himself a little too seriously in this slim volume. Certainly, he must snicker just a little when he rereads the last line of his preface: "Each story deals with one aspect of my struggle to discover what beauty really is."

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Townshend's Horse Fetish | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

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