Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Retail campaigning," which associatescandidates with babies and cornfields, will leadAmericans to "understand [Tsongas'] courage anddevotion to family," Bode said...
...retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the Navy during World War II. Says he, remembering the Mitsubishi fighters and bombers of the Pacific war: "I probably would have trouble buying a Mitsubishi." He drives a Toyota Tercel. Says his friend John Wood, a retired retail chain executive: "The Japanese are probably more industrious than we. And I think we are getting lazy in this country...
There's something fishy about the U.S. seafood industry, according to a new study that will appear in the February issue of Consumer Reports magazine. The study, carried out by investigative reporter Trudy Lieberman, found widespread contamination and mislabeling of seafood in retail fish shops and supermarkets in New York City and Chicago. Of the 113 random samples of fish purchased in both cities, 29% were spoiled and 44% were contaminated with fecal bacteria; 40% of the swordfish samples had an impermissible level of mercury...
...clients, they showed just another in a long series of declines in consumer spirit: a drop from 68.2 in December to 67.1 in early January. If that wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending led to plant closures. Industrial output fell 0.2% last month, and shrank...
What's that again? Love? Caring? But how can the Age of Aquarius be descending upon corporate America, flooding boardrooms with 1960s-era flower children, when retail chains are closing hundreds of outlets and major firms laying off thousands of employees...