Word: purveyors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chain to specialize in large sizes for women, has undergone a startling transformation since it was acquired in 1982 by the Limited, the Columbus-based women's apparel conglomerate (1986 net sales: $3.1 billion). The 87-year-old Lane Bryant has abandoned its self- admitted former image as a purveyor of shapeless smocks to focus on younger customers who are interested in big-scale style. The new formula is working. The number of Lane Bryant stores has tripled so far, from 214 in 1982 to 600. An additional 190 outlets are scheduled to open during the remainder...
...minute (roughly $9 an hour), electronic chats like these add up. In the first six months of 1986, Minitel users made 122 million calls, logged 13 million hours and poured $53.7 million into the hands of some 3,000 services, including newspapers, travel agencies and retail shops. One information purveyor, the daily tabloid Le Parisien Libere, fields 50,000 calls a day for its mix of news, features and message centers -- taking in $1 million a month, half of which is profit...
...paper that does not have to worry about the printers' unions is Today, which debuts next week. Today represents something completely new for Britain: an electronically reproduced daily paper with four-color pages. Founded by Eddy Shah, a successful purveyor of provincial giveaway newspapers, Today will be a 44-page tabloid heavy on domestic news and sports. By setting up his state-of-the-art plant three miles from Fleet Street, Shah skirted the printers entirely, and instead is negotiating a no-strike deal with his employees. Today's staff, including deliverers, numbers only 600, anorectic by the overstuffed standards...
...along with dozens of Prime Ministers and several potentates, including a few Kings. The Secret Service will airlift the President's bulletproof, armored Lincoln Continental on an Air Force transport from Washington, but foreign dignitaries will have to make do with rented limos. Fugazy, New York's largest limousine purveyor, offers cars equipped with flag holders, but the company reports that only six such autos have been requested. Few heads of state, it seems, are eager to alert terrorists by announcing their presence. Bracketing most official cars are station wagons filled with security agents carrying Uzi submachine guns...
...story of Leonard Stern sounds like something out of Capitalist Times. Son of the founder of Hartz Mountain Industries, Stern, 47, is the chairman of the world's largest purveyor of pet products. Intense and blunt-spoken, he may be worth as much as $1 billion, but only his accountant knows for sure: Stern's company is privately owned and he rarely talks to reporters. Now he will have trouble avoiding them. Last week Stern bought the Village Voice, the crusading, leftish weekly whose brand of political and cultural journalism shaped a generation of underground newspapers...