Word: marte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Forks Yellow Pages list 143 churches and only three psychiatrists, and it would take all 146 of them to explain how a place with so much faith could lose a turn-of-the-century downtown to nearly biblical disaster while the Wal-Mart on the edge of town stayed high and dry. The Grand Forks Herald, its offices swamped by relentless Red River tides and then finished off by raging fire, moved to new quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary...
Zoeller soon paid a price for saying openly what many others were thinking secretly. K Mart, the discount chain with a big African-American clientele, unceremoniously dumped him as the sponsor of a line of golf clothing and equipment, and he abjectly withdrew from the Greater Greensboro Open tournament. "People who know me know I'm a jokester. I just didn't deliver the line well," Zoeller tearfully explained. But his real crime was not, as he and his defenders seem to think, merely a distasteful breach of racial etiquette or an inept attempt at humor. The real crime...
...Express is feeding the hungry. Alarm company ADT gives away personal-security systems to battered women. Avon Products is helping fund the fight against breast cancer. Kimberly-Clark is building playgrounds in poor neighborhoods. Barnes & Noble promotes literacy. Coca-Cola is sponsoring local Boys and Girls Clubs. Nike, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, BellSouth, MCI and Starbucks all have pet social causes, as do countless other companies big and small. There are some 800 companies belonging to a San Francisco-based group called Business for Social Responsibility...
...Time Warner, which owns this magazine, she took control of hers, Martha Stewart Living, as well as of her syndicated TV show of the same name. She switched her network appearances from the Today show to the CBS Morning News. She started a new line of products at K Mart. What all this means is that an encounter with Martha will go on being an experience not so different from getting hit by a Mack truck full of daisies. As you peel yourself off the macadam, you're free to cry out against all that is filigreed, twice marinated...
...Illinois vanished. The early '90s saw Disney and J.P. Morgan added, while Navistar and USX got the boot. With the latest changes, which take effect this week, the Dow has morphed further from its heavy-industry roots: Woolworth, Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel and Texaco are being replaced by Wal-Mart Stores, Travelers, Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard...