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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With its Regency furniture, rich wood paneling and commanding view of Chicago's skyline, the executive floor of the 110-story Sears Tower is a monument to the company's glorious century as America's favorite store. Now those days are gone. When Sears' 13 directors gathered last week in the spacious, peach-carpeted 68th-floor boardroom, the reports they faced were overwhelmingly bad. A mammoth increase in advertising had scarcely budged sales. Profits were way down. The Christmas selling season was the worst in 15 years. One piece of news especially seemed to mock the setting's regal grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Sam Stuns Goliath | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...third--but not final, of course--commentator retorted in glorious Board Board style, "Whoever wrote this comment must be a total moron...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: This Board Is Not For the Bored | 2/23/1991 | See Source »

...should retreat from earlier, more glorious methods of affixion is unclear, and Harvard students, being clever folk, have devised several ways to circumvent the problem. One favorite is to place a dab or two of poster gum around the edges of the poster, in order to give the impression that all is in accordance with College regulations, and then liberally apply masking tape closer to the middle of the poster...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: This Isn't a Stickup | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

...Bush has good reason to indulge his intrinsic indifference to such things as block grants and toxic-waste disposal. Being Commander in Chief is more glorious and important than being commander of enterprise zones. But without presidential leadership, inertia is likely to set in on the home front. Television screens flicker throughout the Federal Triangle as bureaucrats play CNN generals rather than go about the unglamorous work of governing. Reducing America's appetite for foreign oil, finding an affordable way to restore civility to cities that resemble war zones, giving the 20% of America's children who live in poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of the Union: So Who's Minding The Store? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...repercussions of Desert Storm, however, will be far more than a footnote to a glorious chapter of U.S. military history. "The only reason to make war is to make peace at the end," says Mohamad Milhem, an executive-committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. "If at the end there is instability and no peace, what is the point in making war?" The shape of the postwar order will depend to a great extent on how the various parties embroiled in the conflict survive the cataclysm of the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Consequences: What Kind of Peace? | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

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