Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal-computer market, while IBM's share has fallen to 33%. Says John Roach, chairman of Tandy, which manufactures a $999 model: "1986 will be the year of the PC-compatible." In the past few weeks the field has grown still more crowded. Two big California retail chains, Businessland and Compu terland, said they would begin marketing IBM-compatibles under their own names...
...that end, Random House routinely demands permission from writers "to license mechanical rights." Simon & Schuster, among other print publishers, offers a defined structure to its authors, based on percentage of retail cassette sales: 5% on the first 10,000 units sold, 6% on the next 5,000, 6.5% thereafter. Those figures are not frozen; tape publishing is about to make its own rules. Predicts Jane Friedman of Random House: "The issue today, ultimately, is that the publisher wants to retain all audio rights, but as in any contract, every point, every clause is up for negotiation. A publisher simply...
...friendly and easy going person with a good sense of humor," said the soon-to-be staffer in Chemical Bank's retail division. "But I am also reserved. I'm not really a chatty type of person...
...time when several struggling retail chains, including Gimbels and Ohrbach's, are closing their doors, St. Louis-based May Department Stores seems to be thinking only of expansion. Last week May, which operates 2,206 outlets, proposed a friendly merger with Associated Dry Goods, a New York City-based chain with 454 stores, among them Lord & Taylor. Experts estimate that the new company would rank among the top five retailers...
...take the Botha government's word for it. A series of minor terrorist explosions took place in Durban, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, and at week's end police killed four black guerrillas near the Botswana border. Wildcat strikes and worker "stayaways" continued in about 100 supermarkets and other retail stores, underscoring reports that around 180 union officials remained in detention, along with perhaps 1,600 other blacks. Out of an estimated 3,000 arrested since the emergency was declared on June 12, about 1,200 were thought to have been released. In a separate development, treason charges against four...