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...could drive violent rap music off radio within weeks,'' he said. Talk like that makes record execs very nervous. They know their product can also be vulnerable to boycotts by record stores that are under pressure from consumer groups. "You can make waves, but you can't mess with retail,'' says Eric Brooks, president of Noo Trybe Records. "You need to have your album stocked in the store...
...think that the Coop will change," Dickson says. "As you know, it's basically a college bookstore and a department store. One real question is whether in fact a sort of small to midsized department store has a future in the retail world...
...office during the Christmas season. "We got lovely things," she says. "Lots of stuff. Leather bags, champagne, a traveling pouch, scarves, cashmere sweaters. A truck had to come to my house twice to deliver it all." This woman figures that within a month she pulled in some 200 gifts. Retail value: around...
...raid by the county's Asian Crime Task Force at the house and at a nearby printshop turned up the largest cache of illegal software ever discovered in the U.S., worth nearly $13 million at retail prices. By week's end investigators were still tallying the haul -- all Microsoft products, including the operating system called DOS 6.2 as well as the helper programs Windows and Windows for Workgroups. In March a similar raid in the same neighborhood unearthed about $4.7 million worth of phony software plus a supply of automatic weapons...
...ordinance also bans smoking in public workplaces, except where employees have no contact with co-workers. It also proposes to prohibit smoking in retail stores, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, taxis and limousines...