Word: marts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most Americans think of the Swatch as a trendy timepiece that was embraced by everyone from K Mart shoppers to the owners of SoHo galleries. But in its country of origin, Switzerland, the Swatch represents nothing less than an amazing instrument of industrial rejuvenation. Before it came along, the Japanese had more or less usurped the Swiss as the heavyweight champions of the watch business by substituting their cheap and reliable digital technology for Switzerland's legendary craftsmanship. The question now is whether that industrial formula can work for -- of all things -- automobiles...
...American Bar Association. By the 1980s, when its growth took , off under the direction of C. Joseph Giroir, a securities specialist, it had long been the cream of Arkansas firms. Its list of present and former clients includes some of the state's biggest businesses, including Tyson Foods, Wal- Mart and TCBY, the national yogurt franchiser, as well as Little Rock Airport Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which oversees banks...
Last year's shirt read "The Five Myths of Eliot House," one of which was that "We Shop at K-Mart." But this year's T-shirt may be a little tamer, if some Eliot residents have their...
...seen. But he's making it up on the spot. He'll pitch the whole story, the turns it takes; the jokes are there, and it'll have a sweet ending. Once we started to tell him a Simpsons story line: Homer has to work at the Kwik-E Mart for Apu. Jim goes, 'Oh, great. And Apu will say, "There are only two phrases you have to know, I assure you: 'That is the full-size box of corn flakes' and 'Shoot if you must, I don't know the combination to the safe.' " ' I think he writes comedy...
...spite of their new spending power, bargain-hunting consumers will continue to reshape the retailing industry by flocking to such discounters as Wal-Mart and Price Club at the expense of traditional department stores. That in turn will help restrain price increases even as the economy expands...