Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group sent out a memo Friday to all K-School students urging them to write to Dean Graham T. Allison '62 to express their support for a program which would reduce the amount of loan money K-school graduates would have to repay if they enter public service upon graduation...
Bloomingdale's, the glitzy department store chain with 16 branches from Manhattan to Dallas, has long catered to jet-set tastes. Now the retailer wants to be close to the jets as well. Last week it opened a pair of Bloomie's Express Shops at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, thus becoming the first major department store to establish outposts at one of the main hubs of U.S. air travel...
...shops offer 450 items, ranging from a $1.25 heart-shaped pen to a $100 crystal plate, and the airport location guarantees captive high-income customers. Foreign travelers seem to appreciate that members of the sales staff speak seven languages, from French to Chinese. If sales at the Express Shops take off, Bloomingdale's plans to open stores at other airports, both in the U.S. and abroad...
...York City restaurant patrons who charge their meals to American Express got something extra last week: a thank-you note. Amex is contributing 3 cents from each bill to Citymeals-on-Wheels, a program that delivers food to the elderly and homebound. To encourage customers to contribute directly toward more charity meals, Amex provided postage-paid envelopes for donations using check or charge. During the month of November, the company expects to collect more than 1.6 million three-penny chit donations, enough for 10,000 meals-on- wheels, at the more than 3,500 New York City restaurants that accept...
...president of Seidler Amdec Securities, a Los Angeles brokerage: "The popular perception among investors is that this kind of Boesky crap goes on all the time. The real tragedy is that we keep living up to people's worst expectations." Says John Baker, a broker with Shearson Lehman/ American Express: "In the eyes of the public, we are all bad guys...