Word: marts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul play...
Nobody knew where or when Wiley would surface, and many Hinckley folk now sense he is beyond their guesswork. Said Mary Placke, who saw him daily when he picked up Kent regulars and a newspaper at the Open Pantry Food Mart: "I thought we knew Mel. Guess we didn't." Detective Bigam feels sure of one thing: "He knew I'd be working on the case. He's got to be gloating...
...department-store company, reported last week that its profits fell 27% in the three months ending in October, but said that sales picked up in the first days after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the all important Christmas shopping season. Several other retail chains, including Dayton-Hudson and K mart, are also reporting brisk holiday business. Concludes Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The odds still favor a very good Christmas." He thinks the drop in interest rates will bolster consumer confidence...
...extensive planned changes include the building of a merchandise mart, a hotel, and numerous office buildings as well as the improvement of several movie houses...
Aalto's furniture was never again so dashing and hard-edged. He spent the '30s making cantilevered chairs, each a reworking of an idea that the Bauhaus stars Breuer and Mart Stam had established using tubular steel in the '20s. The cantilever is springy, like an athlete's crouch. Indeed, Aalto's cantilevered chairs have a cheerfully anthropomorphic profile. His most splendid variations on the theme also seem the most characteristically Scandinavian: after he had tried seats and backs of plain plywood and boxy upholstery, Aalto designed birch frames crisscrossed with black linen webbing...