Word: retailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expected to cost more than $455 billion. This year alone, East is costing West more than $60 billion. In the long run, says Finance Minister Theo Waigel, "no one can put a figure on what is coming at us." Estimates run as high as $775 billion over ten years. Retail sales and tax revenues from the East will put some money back into federal coffers, of course, but nothing close to the outlays...
...Coop director Peter Pil, an MIT student, said the rebate could have ended up even lower this year. Considering that the retail industry has suffered significant losses in the struggling Massachusetts economy, the Coop was able to make a "pretty good profit," said...
...does Beverly Hills' ultra-luxe Rodeo Drive get ready for an expected retail slump? By expanding, of course. So it was that klieg lights flashed and 50 fashion models strutted their stuff last week to launch a 23-store mall that cost $170 million to build on the famed shopping street. Known as Two Rodeo, the two-block project, which is designed to look as if it had been in place for a century, features an Italianate cobblestone lane called Via Rodeo that comes complete with a piazza, sculpted travertine fountains and a staircase patterned after the Spanish Steps...
...destruction of it, both the centralized aspect and the socialist aspect. Within two years, 70% of the nation's industrial enterprises would be privatized, with stock markets in Moscow and Leningrad trading shares in competitive firms. An even larger proportion -- perhaps 90% -- of businesses in the service and retail trading sectors would be put in private hands. A version of the Shatalin plan circulating in Moscow last week put it bluntly: "Mankind has not succeeded in creating anything more efficient than a market economy...
...spare some change? I'd like to buy a few junk bonds.") In the matter of contentiousness, I once tried to indicate the difference between New York and the Midwest, where I grew up, by saying that in the Midwest if you approach someone who is operating a retail business and ask him if he has change for a quarter, he is not likely to call you a fascist. He is certainly not going to say, "G'wan -- get lost." He would never say, "Ya jerky bastard...