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...depressed, and Christmas sales will probably be flat -- at best. The picture looks no prettier in Europe. In fashion- conscious Italy, for example, apparel sales are expected to decline 12% in 1991. The one striking exception seems to prove the rule: in the U.S., sales at the Gap, purveyor of $19 cotton turtlenecks and $28.50 sweat pants, are running 30% above last year...
Reuben Sturman has built an empire that reportedly grosses $1 million a day from the sale of lewd magazines, videos and "marital aids," but federal prosecutors aren't letting him enjoy his wealth. Identified in a 1986 presidential report as the world's leading purveyor of X-rated materials, Sturman, 67, has been the target of three federal obscenity prosecutions. Last week a Las Vegas jury was unable to reach a verdict in Sturman's most recent trial, on nine counts of racketeering, conspiracy and obscenity, and found him not guilty of one charge of transporting an indecent videotape across...
...dying, you may view Dr. Jack Kevorkian as a courageous crusader for your rights. If you are a doctor, he may seem more like a cheap purveyor of easy death. Either way, he has become the lightning rod of the right-to-die movement and a gifted promoter of a cause he desperately believes in -- and shockingly abets. Last week the doctor who has made his name by hastening death rather than forestalling it helped two more women kill themselves in Michigan. Lawmakers and doctors may debate the ethics of euthanasia endlessly; but while that argument unfolds, the activists have...
...from grain, rice, cement and coffee to timber, carpets and anchovies. It is a force to be reckoned with in international oil markets and, through its intertwined relationship with the Gokal brothers' shipping interests, is a shipping conglomerate as well. Taken altogether, B.C.C.I. commands virtual self- sufficiency as a purveyor of goods around the world...
...folding its tent? Economics. Pan American World Airways, from which the White House charters the press plane, is under bankruptcy proceedings and is in the process of selling its assets. If Pan Am goes under, no other airline appears both willing and able to replace it as the official purveyor of 747s to the press corps. "No other airline wants to do it," says Gary Wright of the White House Travel Office. "The bottom line is the airlines don't make enough money out of it, and the p.r. value is negligible...