Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credit card craze is not limited to credit card companies like American Express, MasterCard and Visa. Retail, oil and phone companies have created their line of credit cards for customers...
...according to the Nilson Report, 82.1 million people owned credit cards from oil companies, 103.6 million held accounts with phone companies and 95.4 million carried credit cards from retail stores...
...world of journalism -- only her vantage point is from the business side of the equation. As the account executive in charge of TIME newsstand sales in the U.S., Hargrove oversees the distribution of the copies of the magazine that wend their way each week to 175,000 retail outlets around the country...
...high 15,000 claims, to 447,000 in mid-March. And orders for big-ticket durable goods ranging from turbines to battleships fell 0.1% in February, after rising a sprightly 2.5% in January. There has been good news as well: purchases of existing homes jumped 9.3% in February, while retail sales rose 1.3% the same month...
Ever so slowly, the U.S. economy is reviving. The most recent sign came last week when the government reported that retail sales surged in January and February by 2.1% and 1.3% respectively -- the first back-to-back increases of more than 1% since...