Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specialize in soups and chowders and we also have numerous sandwiches--lobster rolls, seafood rolls," said Sam F. Petrovich, who directs retail store operations for Boston Chowda Company...
...been testing IBM's Aptiva E Series 585, which shipped to retail stores last week. At $1,899 (a monitor costs extra), the 500-MHz Pentium III desktop PC has the usual amenities, but comes with an internal Sony CD-RW drive. RW is industry jargon for rewriteable, which means it can handle discs that can be recorded over and over again, just like a floppy disc. CD-RW discs, however, tend to cost about $10 each and can be flaky, as I soon learned...
Since January, the price of oil had been dropping like a stone, from $25 to $9 per bbl. Independent oilmen like Bush were going under every day, dragging with them six of Midland's banks and its real estate, oil-services and retail industries. From the Rolls-Royce dealership on down, the whole town was getting shuttered. "I don't know, Dickey," Bush said. He was about to turn 40. He had been telling his employees that the hard times would last a few months, that they would just ride 'em out. But he let down his guard...
...than 19 million visitors a month. Not bad, but far from the best. At No. 1, yahoo.com attracts close to 31 million, according to Net-traffic tracker Media Metrix. Disney's other online properties include extensions of its well-known TV and cable brands ABCNews.com and ESPN.com and its retail operations (Disney Stores Online...
Realizing one is gay is usually cause for terror, or at least mortification, but Milk felt too great a sense of entitlement to let either emotion prevail. Born to a successful retail-clothing family on New York's Long Island, Milk was a popular high school athlete and jokester. According to the biography The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts, Milk had no trouble recognizing his desires; as a boy he would venture to a gay section of Central Park, where in 1947 he was arrested for doffing his shirt (he was 17). The experience didn't radicalize...