Word: marte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suburban shopping malls. But a former Bloomingdale's fashion director who was hired to move the company into high-fashion merchandise succeeded only in turning off Sears' traditional value-oriented shopper. In the mid-'70s, Sears tried to go up against fast-growing discounters like K mart. When prices were slashed, customers came back but profits did not. Then the recession hit. By 1981, earnings at Sears stores had slid 45% from levels of only five years earlier...
...department-store industry has been enjoying a boom since last April, and the holiday sales surge should push earnings even higher. Third-quarter profits were up dramatically. K mart's earnings increased 171%, to $81 million over the same period last year. At Associated Dry Goods, which owns Lord & Taylor and Caldor stores, profits increased 74%, to $14.3 million...
...district attorney of Louis Parish, La., Jim Garrison, also announced that he had solved the JFK assassination. His theory was that a conspiracy was headed by the director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced...
White-gloved guards goose-stepped up to the monument commemorating their nation's most venerated martyr. Then Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez laid a single wreath on the tomb of Revolutionary Hero Carlos Fonseca Amador. Two dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed...
While the pair has since retired they've left their mark on the computer game market-more than 450 of their programs are on sale at stores such as Sears K-Mart and Woolworth...