Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mail order forms the bulk of Bean's business: last year $308 million of the company's sales came from catalog orders. The firm's reputation for homey efficiency comes from its ability to deliver virtually any item almost anywhere in the U.S. and Canada within 72 hours. During peak season, more than 28,000 telephone orders a day flood the Bean switchboards. Computers help keep track of the models, colors and sizes that are in stock at any given moment, and orders are filled accurately 99.8% of the time. The company provides repairs as well as sales. Each year...
Jack Morse, deputy chief of Harvard Police, said that currently the police have no leads. He said that usually when something like this is stolen, officers check pawn shops and used furniture stores for the item...
...liking. All four of his appointees on the seven-member panel agree to varying degrees with the doctrine of keeping a loose rein on the money supply to promote economic growth. But judging by the names of likely nominees for the two latest vacancies, which became an item of speculation last week, the Administration now seems inclined to continue to let the board have some dissenting voices. One probable nominee is Leif Olsen, 60, a former Citibank economist who leans toward a monetarist, or tight-money, philosophy. Another is Edward Kelley, 54, a Houston investment counselor who displays no particular...
...Item No.1: Malcolm Hollensteiner, Harvard's 6-ft., 10-in. freshman center, has taken to wearing the really long kind of boxer shorts that stick out beneath his uniform. Hollensteiner has yet to get into a ballgame wearing this wacky apparel, but he will doubtless establish some kind of major college basketball first if and when he does...
...Item No. 2: A half-dozen fans showed up at the Princeton game with their faces painted half red, half white. Briggs is hardly Cameron Indoor Stadium (Duke's home court, where the student fans--many with painted faces--are affectionately known as "the animals") but at least it's moving in the right direction...