Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long run, if Harvard succeeds in buying up large amounts of Harvard Square and consolidating its control, HRE will face a number of questions about retail use and rental policy, says the Historical Commission's Sullivan...
...things afterward." More and more he is working for developers directly. "I want to come in earlier -- to try to make it look not like an afterthought. We add the human scale and the life in many cases." His practical ideas are deeply elegant: outdoor maps for the retail center of a Marin County town will be three dimensional, cast in bronze and overlaid with a directional grid. For his latest commission, the grandest yet, he will help oversee the renovation of Bay Meadows, a Thoroughbred racetrack built in the 1930s...
...Mart's growth is phenomenal. The company has been able to expand for the past decade at a dizzying annual pace exceeding 35%, more than triple the rate of the retail industry as a whole. Last year Wal-Mart posted profits of $450.1 million on sales of $11.9 billion, up from only $2.4 billion five years earlier. The company, which ranks as the fourth largest U.S. retailer, is poised to supplant the No. 3 chain, J.C. Penney (1986 sales: $14.7 billion), and is moving up fast on the industry behemoths, K mart ($23.8 billion) and Sears ($44.3 billion). This week...
Wesley-Jessen expects the lenses to bring in revenues exceeding $50 million in their first year. That could make them the hottest new eye product since soft lenses were introduced in 1971. Nonetheless, the colored variety is only a mote by comparison with overall retail sales of contact lenses, which totaled $1.3 billion last year...
...April 3 a new era began in Beverly Hills: smoking was banned in restaurants and retail stores. Three weeks later many cigarettes remain unlit but scorched tempers are flaring. In cafes and restaurants throughout this clean, orderly city, known for its per capita wealth and celebrity residents, vociferous smokers are shrieking that the new ordinance is fascist, Communist and tyrannical. "It's the People's Republic of Beverly Hills," fumes Irene Robbins, a bookkeeper for the Mandarin, a Chinese restaurant one block from Rodeo Drive. "The smog is ten times worse than anything you're going to breathe sitting through...