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Downstairs, a handful of shoppers rummage through clothes piled a foot deep across a wide expanse of floor space at Dollar a Pound+. (In fact, merchandise is currently priced at $1.50 per pound.) A shoe section offers used wingtips and new knee-high boots and stack-heeled monstrosities. Upstairs, clothing is more or less organized into racks of new, used, and vintage ’60s and ’70s duds...
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...Span-America Medical Systems, a South Carolina manufacturer of foam pads for hospital beds whose shares jumped from 3 1/8 to 22¾. Also among the highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20½ to 62¾; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10¼ to 27½. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from 1 1/8 to 6 7/8. TAKEOVER BATTLES Union Carbide...
...exports and investment, should lead to 3% growth this year. Inflation is expected to fall to about 3.8% by the end of the year. Unemployment is 13%, but it is likely to fall slightly. Brittan noted that declining oil prices are reducing British revenues and putting pressure on the pound. He predicted that the government would raise interest rates, if necessary, to maintain the value of the currency...
...using and selling cocaine on the site, and 29 GM employees among those apprehended were fired. That capped a nine-month investigation by local police at the company's request, during which undercover agents purchased large amounts of marijuana and cocaine. On Jan. 2, the agents bought half a pound of coke for $14,000. Said Detective Nels Munson: "That's when we knew we had to move...