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...charged for each optional event, such as modeling or talent. Organizers also sell pageant jewelry and publish journals that earn money through advertising. And before the parents are done, they have usually shelled out hundreds more for costumes (in the better pageants they must be handmade, not off the rack), makeup, voice or dance lessons, pageant consultants and travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING AT PAGEANTS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

What do women want? For years, the top brass at Sears, Roebuck and Co. had nary a clue. Store managers saw nothing amiss in displaying intimate apparel from the same rack fixtures that were used to sell paints. "Sears frustrated and disappointed our customers over a long period of time," says chairman and CEO Arthur Martinez, who arrived in 1992 from Saks Fifth Avenue, where he had been vice chairman, with prayerful instructions to save the Big Store. "If we didn't act quickly, the end game was a slow death for the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REINVENTING SEARS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent Republicans. With so many possible transgressions for him to probe, Thompson may want to borrow his favorite line as Die Hard 2's unflappable Dulles Airport chief air-traffic controller: "Stack 'em, pack 'em and rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERFECTLY IN CHARACTER | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Like many powerful men who were born poor, Bill Clinton is obsessed with money. The obsession is not about the things it can buy; back when he was a civilian, he bought his suits off the rack at Dillard's in Little Rock, ate cheap, rarely took a vacation. Instead, the obsession is about the things money can do: open doors, grease wheels, make friends, cushion blows...and win elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MONEY MESS | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Senior tailback Eion Hu continues to rack up yardage for the Crimson, leading the team with 355 yards rushing, to go with his three touchdowns...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Football Hopes to Send Local Rival Holy Cross to the Lions | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

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