Word: retail
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...crop. Law-enforcement officials insist that it ranks just behind corn, soybeans and wheat in market value. Last year's marijuana harvest had an estimated street value of $8.5 billion; in each of more than 30 states, law-defying entrepreneurs produced crops worth at least $100 million at retail. California's harvest, worth an almost unbelievable but reasonably documented $1.5 billion at retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane and pineapple harvest in value. In Oklahoma, the $350 million harvest ranked just behind wheat. In Kentucky and Tennessee, each with...
...these experimental boutiques are successful, Sears is expected to expand the new business to the rest of its 851 retail stores and some 25 million credit-card customers. Admits Joyce Healy, a senior vice president at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, one of New York's largest banks: "Sears will be a very formidable competitor...
Loyd Hackler, now president of the American Retail Federation, wryly recalled last week that when he was named an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, great efforts were made to obscure Hackler's own Texas background. L.B.J. was growing sensitive to the observations that Texas people, Texas clothes, Texas food and Texas language were inundating the capital, and so Hackler was listed as being from Oklahoma. It took U.P.I.'s wily White House correspondent, Merriman Smith, to penetrate the ruse by asking: "When did he move to Texas...
...Cambridge, backed principally by private developers, but also aided by federal and state grants. Plans now exist to revitalize four sections of the city which were once thriving manufacturing areas. A project called the Cambridge Center slated for Kendall Square calls for the development of office space, a retail center and a hotel...
...million UDAG grant will fund the redesign of the Lechmere canal in East Cambridge, and a massive development project is designed to bring office and retail space to the Riverfront area. In the Alewife region, where three office complexes have been completed recently, additional office and industrial development is planned. Successful completion of the MBTA Redline extension is crucial for success in Alewife. In Cambridgeport, the major revitalization plans--under the supervision of MIT--have been stalled pending further negotiations with neighborhood residents. Plans for the other areas have already received local approval...