Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...softwear. For those long, coldnights in front of the computer, try a Scottishcashmere sweater and cashmere-lined gloves, $159and $55 respectively, at Saks, while Burberry'scashmere sport jackets retail for $595. For moreintimate pleasures, Victoria's Secrets (4 CopleyPlace) sells a $395 cashmere robe...
...Jefferies, 56, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Jefferies & Co. investment firm, which specializes in assembling large blocks of stock in takeover targets. Jefferies recently supplied Canadian Raider Robert Campeau with $1.8 billion worth of stock in Allied Stores, a move that eased a $3.6 billion takeover of the retail chain. Jefferies has acknowledged receiving a subpoena, and told the New York Times that he was innocent of wrongdoing. Also served was Michael Singer, 37, a former Jefferies senior vice president who | switched in October to the Manhattan-based Salomon Brothers investment firm. Singer resigned his new post last week...
...franc a minute (roughly $9 an hour), electronic chats like these add up. In the first six months of 1986, Minitel users made 122 million calls, logged 13 million hours and poured $53.7 million into the hands of some 3,000 services, including newspapers, travel agencies and retail shops. One information purveyor, the daily tabloid Le Parisien Libere, fields 50,000 calls a day for its mix of news, features and message centers -- taking in $1 million a month, half of which is profit...
...will also feature a health club, 265 parking spaces, and 6,000 square feet to be used as retail space for a restaurant, a gourmet grocer, a pharmacy and a dry cleaner, said Davis...
...lure of fast cash is powerful in a county battered by 34% unemployment. Like other border areas, Starr depends on commerce with northern Mexico, and the peso's plummet has forced some stores to close. Yet overall retail sales are up 10%, and bank deposits have leaped 198% in five years -- a cash transfusion that Customs officials attribute to the dope flow. The new money, concedes Mayor Jose Saenz of Roma-Los Saenz, a border town of 3,700, "indirectly benefits us all." That touch of prosperity, according to Customs Agent D'Wayne Jernigan, has "created a wall of reluctance...