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...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...
...factory orders, construction outlays, business profits, you name it; figures released last week showed them all marching ahead. Even the few contrary reports needed qualification. New- home sales dropped a bit in October from a blistering September pace, but sales of used homes hit a 14-year high. November retail-sales gains were only so-so, which might be a bad omen for the all important Christmas season. But simultaneously, consumer confidence, as measured by the Conference Board, a business-research group, jumped 11 points in November to an index number of 72.2, still relatively low but the highest since...
...survived psychology. But it amounts to the same thing: a feeling that the recession is far enough in the past that the threat to people who have hung onto their jobs is over; they can unzip their wallets. Richard Outcalt, president of Seattle-based Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent and "professional shopper," declares, "I'm fed up with...
...Because of the location of the building, we had to get into retail food," Feldman explains...
This emphasis on retail caused Feldman to reduce the delivery aspect of his business, which is now almost nonexistent. Customers must stop in to pick up Feldman's creations. (Perhaps this is best: a misdelivery could prove very embarrassing for all concerned...