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...company is in a better position to profit from this spending surge than Sears, Roebuck. The giant retail chain and catalogue merchant, largest in the U.S., is on a hot streak. After a decade in which profits sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title...
...Schofield Coryell, "Israel, Marchand de Mort," (Israel, Merchant of Death). Afrique-Asie April 12, 1982; also see Howard, MERIP Reports...
...flagship Manhattan outlet last week, a fashionably dressed woman was asked what she intended to buy. She replied: "I'm just window-shopping here so I can find something good that I like. As soon as I do, I'm going back home to my off-price merchant and get it much cheaper...
...homeland that I had never seen. Although its proliferating population remains China's greatest obstacle to modernization, I agree with White that human envy and appetite are potentially equally dangerous perils. While walking down a bustling Shanghai boulevard, I encountered a swarm of people surrounding a street merchant. What was the object of everyone's smiling fascination? A Rubik's Cube...
...merchant tried to flag down a cruising police car, Shibutani said, the customer dropped several instruments and fled the store. He remains at large...