Word: nonfood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would split into two companies. The Kraft portion will retain its name and virtually...
Many scams involve the purchase of glittering nonfood items with stamps. Agents have bought a motorboat and used cars in Illinois, a gun complete with silencer in Wisconsin and marijuana in Kentucky. At the Hennepin Hotel in Minneapolis, the U.S. agency investigators discovered that the owner gladly accepted the coupons instead of cash when it came to settle the room bill. In an investigation in Las Vegas headed by Lamond Mills, U.S. Attorney for Nevada, federal agents used the stamps this year to purchase, among other items, four guns, two diamond rings, a handsaw, cocaine, a macaw from Mexico...