Word: retail
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That rosy outlook was supported in part by reassuring Government statistics published just as the corporate chiefs were arriving at the resort. The Producer Price Index, a measure of future inflation, fell in September by 0.2%, its second monthly decline in a row. And retail sales during the same month rose...
...remain strong. Said Philip Hawley, chairman of the Carter Hawley Hale department-store chain, which includes Neiman-Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman: "Going into the all-important holiday season, consumer confidence to us looks good. It's close to its alltime high." Hawley predicted, however, a slower rate of retail buying next year. That forecast was supported by the council report, which sees consumer spending moving ahead by only 2.5%, compared with this year's 6% gain...
...result of a deal completed last January with Apple. Inc., Harvard can offer the computers for approximately $1000 less than their standard retail value...
...MOVE to change the law picked up support from two unlikely sources; the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma Retail, Liquor Dealers Association. In 1972 and 1976, the newspaper, the state's largest, published seething front-page, editorials against changing the saloon restriction. This year, however, with the son of the old publisher in his father's place, the paper ran a far more mild exhortation against repeal on its editorial page, a move McCartney says "was definitely significant...
Lagerfeld also has a line of fragrances manufactured by Elizabeth Arden that brings in $140 million yearly in retail sales. He designs neckties, eyeglasses (for a frame like his own: about $45) and porcelain pieces, even as he continues to work for Trevira textiles as a "fashion adviser." He does a special line of men's and women's clothes for Isetan, a leading Japanese department store group, and is pondering a serious plunge into men's wear. "Yes," he says, with a discreet suggestion of feigned resignation, "I'm afraid I will do that...