Word: retailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gore's shortcomings as a retail politician--emphasizing the wrong phrases in speeches, going stone-faced when he should be empathic, forgetting to work the rope line--have led him to compensate with big, attention-getting moves. He calls them "long bombs," the kind quarterbacks throw when nothing else is working. Gore planned to throw one last Sunday by flying to the 155-nation global-warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, where the U.S. finds itself scorned. Why was Gore planning to insert himself into a no-win situation...
...decision as long overdue, privately confess they are not all that eager to implement it. Before investing in the costly shielded radiation rooms that will be needed to sterilize fresh or frozen meat on an assembly-line basis (and will add 3[cents] or 4[cents] to the retail price of chopped sirloin), they want to gauge consumer demand. Admits John Masefield, chief executive of the Whippany, N.J., medical sterilization company Isomedix, whose three-year-old petition prompted the FDA action: "A lot of people want to be second...
Donaldson stressed the importance of "building upon the heritage and history of the Harvard Cooperative Society" while introducing the corporate retail style of Barnes and Noble in the renovated version of the store...
...enthralled about ripping down old buildings," says Eveland, "but some have outlived their useful lives. What comes to mind when you think of Wilmington is the downtown--so maintaining it is terribly important." Eveland is negotiating with a developer who wants to build a downtown retail complex, but most of the commercial action has moved to Hamburger Alley, where prime acreage is controlled by a city councilman named Robert Raizk. Downtown's economy has been so precarious that local bankers wouldn't risk the money to turn a warehouse into Main Street's first upscale restaurant; a businessman in town...
...YORK: Broadcast a TV commercial encouraging consumers to stay home today, rather than shop on the busiest day of the retail year? You'd be quixotic not to expect opposition from retailers. But who'd have thought that the so-called Buy Nothing Day ad would be also be censored ? by two national TV networks...