Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both sides make valid points. It's just that neither seems to grasp the brazen new mood out there represented by, among other things, all the grass- roots female backing for Ms. Bobbitt. The retail clerks who send her letters of support, the homemakers who cackle wildly every time they sharpen the butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would...
Wholesale prices edged up a negligible 0.2% last year, and consumer prices posted the smallest gain in seven years -- only 2.7%. Analysts predict continued low inflation in 1994. Meanwhile, spurred on by purchases of cars and home-related goods, retail sales last year soared 6.2%, the biggest annual advance since...
...where they would assemble until the last minute. With only hours to spare, Viacom and Blockbuster announced a shocker: an $8.4 billion merger that would create a multimedia powerhouse with assets ranging from Viacom's MTV (home of Beavis and Butt-head) and Nickelodeon to Blockbuster's 3,500 retail stores...
...federal government should also consider imposing heavy taxes on the retail sale of guns. High taxes would mean either tremendous revenues, curtailed demand, or both. If people kept buying guns, at least the government would have more money to fight gun-related crime. Just as cigarettes and alcohol bear hefty "sin taxes," so should this problematic product. But wait, why concentrate on the cleanup rather than the prevention? A full-scale ban would stem the supply of guns much more effectively, but it remains to be seen whether Congress will act so decisively...
...guards, George D. Perry and Michael J. Auterio, were acquitted on December 23 of charges that they stole the water coolers from the Law School. The coolers retail for $219 each, according to Poland Springs...