Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imported oil, which would pay the twin dividends of reducing the budget deficit and helping to prop up domestic suppliers by increasing the price. Says Heller: "The gains we make from the drop in oil prices ought to give us a kitty for helping the losers." As retail energy prices drop lower, the imposition of a small tax could be increasingly painless for consumers...
...employers have decided to strike back at the drug plague. In high- rise office towers and sprawling factory complexes, in bustling retail stores and remote warehouses, companies are cracking down on workers who get high on the job. Supervisors are watching closely for telltale signs and confronting workers who seem impaired. Employees caught with drugs are often fired on the spot, and suspected users are urged to enter rehabilitation clinics. Hundreds of companies are setting up programs to combat drugs, providing psychiatric counseling for employees, resorting to urinalysis to identify users, and in a few cases going...
...Communist." Gorbachev boasted that his self-proclaimed war against alcoholism is getting results. "Drunkenness has been elbowed out of factories, and there is less of it in public places," he said. Later, at an unusual news conference, Politburo Member Geidar Aliyev said that half of the state's retail trade revenue, worth about $446 billion a year, had come from alcohol. He claimed that reduced liquor sales had slashed that income by $66 billion, and said, "We have to sell other commodities to make up for the sale of alcohol." Western diplomats said Aliyev's figures sounded implausible. If they...
Except for Benetton, which is not a factory store, regular prices can be as much as 40 percent below the standard retail price. Women's boots at Dexter Shoes were selling for 50 percent off, and a pair of standard penny loafers, which normally go for $79, were on sale for $54.99 because there were nicks so small that the cashier had to show them to one curious shopper...
...Polo-Ralph Lauren outlet sells men's suits that are regularly $595 for $319.99 and women's sweaters that retail...