Word: raymonds
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Sears customers span every socioeconomic level. Says Chairman Telling: "The Sears customer is everybody." Raymond Kennedy, vice president and general credit manager, says, "We are the telephone book." And a fat one. Three out of four American adults, 128 million in all, will enter a Sears store some time this year. Sixty-three million people have a Sears credit card, and 26.6 million use the card regularly. Average charges per year...
...hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup," said Raymond Chandler. "Iowa with palms," said John Gunther. Too severe. Iowa cannot claim to have, in one city at least, a Little Tokyo, a Chinatown, a Koreatown, all of which have personality. Hard-boiled is another matter...
...DIED. Raymond Patriarca, 76, undisputed godfather of organized crime in New England for a quarter of a century; of a heart attack; in Providence. Despite more than 40 arrests and 18 convictions for crimes including bootlegging, armed robbery, auto theft, and breaking and entering, the Massachusetts-born Patriarca always denied that he was anything but a legitimate vending-machine distributor. Indicted in 1980 and 1981 on charges of labor racketeering and ordering the execution of two underworld figures, he never stood trial because of poor health...
...Mayor Raymond L. Flynn must sign the measure before it goes to the state legislature for approval. A mayoral aide said yesterday Flyne would probably sign the measure and than it was expected to pass through the State House easily...
...higher borrowing costs that banks are paying in the U.S., but among the main victims were foreign debtors. At least half of all credit to Latin America is tied to the prime rate, and every percentage point rise adds $1.2 billion annually to the debtors' burden. Said Raymond Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based economic consultant: "The timing in the political sense could not have been worse." Alfonsin in his speech angrily attacked the "exorbitant and arbitrary interest rates...