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...recall the last novel he read; he once took on a family vacation a book entitled Swedish Land-Use Planning. In his high school yearbook he is facetiously depicted as "Big Chief Brain in Face." He can wax ecstatic over finding a pair of $47 shoes in a discount outlet, and has owned just four cars in the past quarter- century: a Rambler, two Plymouths and the current 1981 Dodge. "My wife says I'm the most uncomplicated man in the world," Dukakis admits. "I guess I am." Even his 83-year-old mother says of him, "What...
...commotion was stirred by the annual sale taking place at the two new American outlets of IKEA, the Scandinavian retailer of unassembled furniture and other household goods. While most Americans have never heard of IKEA, the chain had $1.7 billion in sales last year at 76 stores that stretch from Norway to Australia. Already one of the fastest-growing merchants in Europe, where 51 of its stores are located, IKEA is now successfully bringing its pizzazz and promotion to the U.S. The company put a store in suburban Philadelphia two years ago and followed with the Dale City outlet...
...TIME Washington correspondents who reported this week's cover stories did what almost every American near an electrical outlet tried to do last week: they watched Oliver North testify on Capitol Hill. But the correspondents attended the sessions in person and then called sources for reaction. "More legwork is required in reporting major scandals than in any other type of reporting," says Congressional Correspondent Hays Gorey, who recalls wearing out a few pairs of shoes covering Watergate. "Sources are so few and reporters so many that dozens of calls are never returned. You have to track sources to restaurants...
...violent videos. Some keep offensive titles in a separate room, while others insist that parents specify on membership cards which films their children are allowed to take home. "It's really the parents' job to police what their kids watch," says Mark Hooper, video manager of a Sound Warehouse outlet in Memphis. "About all we can do is not stock titles that we know are going to cause trouble...
...1950s he owned more than a dozen similar stores, but decided that the future was in discounting rather than in five-and-dimes. After studying a K mart in Chicago, Walton and his younger brother James, now a company senior vice president, opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City outlet in 1962, in Rogers, Ark. At the turn of the decade his stores had spread to more than 30 locations...