Word: retailer
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...prime reason for the flurry of regulation is that cigarette bashing has become politically popular. Even such a tobacco bastion as Greensboro, N.C., has an ordinance against smoking in retail stores and other public areas. As a sign of the diminished power of Washington's once feared tobacco lobby, Congress is considering 72 bills to inhibit tobacco use. Kennedy's proposal would create a $185 million Center for Tobacco Products, with broad powers to regulate the industry. His costly plan faces an uphill battle, as does another bill, proposed by Congressman Henry Waxman of California, that would allow only informational...
Carpenter & Co., which has leased the Motor House site since 1987, plans to tear the hotel down and build a complex of retail shops and office space...
...embodied Wall Street's gold-rush spirit of the 1980s more than Peter Cohen, the high-strung chairman of the investment firm Shearson Lehman Hutton. A short, cigar-smoking firebrand, Cohen transformed Shearson from a stolid retail brokerage into an investment-banking giant. Backed by American Express, which bought the firm for $360 million in 1981, Shearson grew from 11,000 employees to 47,000 by the mid-'80s. But Cohen's expansion drive proved unstable. Hurt by several missteps and the slowing pace of Wall Street dealmaking, Shearson's investment-banking revenue declined 27% last year, to $963 million...
...week doesn't go by buy that someone doesn't try to steal a magazine." said Fred Cohen, stand manager of the Out-of-Town News and one of the Association's directors. "It's good to have one of these speakers to enlighten the retail community...
...Amendment rights. But the Justices saw it as a commercial issue, not a spiritual one. Wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "The tax is not a tax on the right to disseminate religious information, ideas, or beliefs per se; rather it is a tax on the privilege of making retail sales of tangible personal property...