Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other big issues facing the council involve development. Developer Forest City Enterprises wants to turn the 27-acre Simplex development near MIT into housing, business and retail space over the next 15 years...
...York City last week, the trend reached another milestone when General Electric bought RCA for more than $6 billion in what is the biggest acquisition ever of a nonoil firm. Just blocks away, W.R. Grace, the chemical producer and retail-store giant, said it would buy back almost $600 million of its stock in a move to fend off a possible takeover. In Houston, Texaco found itself fighting for its life after a judge affirmed that the third-largest U.S. oil producer would have to pay more than $11 billion in damages for derailing a 1984 merger between Pennzoil...
...local K-Mart and came face to face with Father Christmas sitting on a hideous, gaudy throne, and holding two squalling children in headlocks as they had their pictures taken. I accosted him and demanded to know what he was doing wasting his time in a second-rate retail store in Roanoke, Va., with Christmas so close at hand. "Second-rate Santas have to bring in the dough somehow," was all he could manage...
...factories that are battling for the hearts and attention of America's children with marching armies of curious and sometimes fearsome characters. This year the two largest U.S. manufacturers, Hasbro and Mattel, expect to ring up more than $1 billion each in revenues for the first time ever. Total retail toy sales grew 20% last year, thanks to a healthy economy and the excitement stirred by such blockbuster products as Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids and Hasbro's Transformer robots. That would be a tough performance to follow in any industry, but experts predict toy sales will jump an additional...
...shoes in what had been a Western Auto store on Main Street. "You know, we put in brick walks, natural oak interiors and carpeting. We spent over $150,000 just doing the interior of the store. I acquired two adjoining buildings and rehabbed those and put in six retail stores." And how well are they doing? "Extremely well...