Word: field
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dallas merchants say Christmas sales may climb by 25%. Shoppers are packing malls in suburban Houston to buy stereos, TVs and Betamax recorders. Expensive furs, jewelry, silks and cashmeres are brisk sellers everywhere. Many retailers echo the report of a luggage salesman at Chicago's Marshall Field department store: "Customers are buying better quality. It's the old philosophy of being too poor to buy cheap...
...organization waging a battle it could not lose, the D.T.A. fought remarkably hard. Using a network of 36 offices, 425 field workers, 21 armed guards, 132 vehicles and ten mobile TV units, the party staged some 500 rallies and spent an estimated $5.5 million, which is a lot of money, since Namibia has only 412,000 eligible voters. Under the D.T.A.'s white leader, a wealthy rancher named Dirk Mudge, 50, the party shrewdly maintained that it stood for independence from South Africa and an end to apartheid...
...important is the convention business that 117 U.S. cities employ professional staffs to attract meetings. New York City's Convention and Visitors Bureau has five traveling salesmen trying to persuade trade and professional groups to gather in the Big Apple. The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau also has a field force of five convention hunters out plugging the Big Peach. Miami employs four to tout the Big Orange, while Waikiki sent a representative to Austria to bag the Lions International for the Big Pineapple...
...them: accessibility, ambience, restaurants, night life, theaters, museums, shopping, sightseeing, sports and the degree of local cooperation. Thus New York City and Chicago perennially head the Top Ten convention cities in numbers of conventioneers and dollars spent, but the jostling runners-up reflect demographic change and civic ambition. The field...
...covering relatively small four-wheel-drive vehicles designed for off-road use. Running second is Chevy's Blazer with nearly 24% of the market, followed by Ford's newly revamped Bronco with 21%. Next year U.S. automen expect to produce 1 million four-wheel-drive vehicles. The field has become so attractive that even Mercedes plans to enter with its own four-wheeler by next summer...