Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gladstone, Ore...
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WILLIAM B. POWELL Medford, Ore...
Dresses Up. The retail business is sprinkled with sensitive economic barometers. Bernard Galitzki, owner of a Portland, Ore., fabric-store chain, watches women's dresses. "In a recession, women buy sportswear or no clothes at all," he says. "A healthy dress business means that women expect their husbands to take them out more." Women's secondhand dress shops provide another indicator. Last autumn the clothes on the racks of some shops were three years old; women were hanging on to their old fashions instead of buying more recent ones-a clear sign of hard times. Lately there...