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...House of Blues is multifaceted. Part live music revue, part restaurant, part retail clothing store, the club opened in November to rave reviews. Dan Ackroyd, who with John Belushi was one of the "Blues Brothers" in the film of the same name, is an investor in the club...
Roller hockey, as it's called, was already a growth industry. But the Kings' breathless playoff victories have made it a retail bonanza. In Pasadena, my hometown, sporting goods stores reported record sales of sticks, pads and blades. Many removed the baseball and basket-ball equipment from store windows and replaced it with hockey pucks and jerseys...
Other market watchers blame the drops on factors ranging from disappointing corporate announcements to investor fears about President Clinton's health reforms. "The NASD study is a pile of crap," says Morris Mendelson, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania. "Dammit, these are retail customers at All-Tech! Just because they happen to be more interested in the market than the average investor, that's no reason to keep them out." That view is echoed by Edward Fleischman, a former SEC commissioner, who wonders, "How can the SEC justify approving any rule that takes liquidity...
...This is one of the largest maga- zine launches in the past five years," he said. "More than 200,000 copies will reach 78,000 retail outlets...
...those who believed that the U.S. economy had finally climbed out of the doldrums, the news from the nation's shopping malls last week came as a slap in the face. The Commerce Department reported that Americans shut their wallets in March and sent retail sales down 1% for the steepest monthly decline in more than two years. While part of that drop reflected the severe March weather, Commerce revised its earlier optimistic figures for February, saying store sales had fallen 0.3% instead of rising 0.3%, as it had originally reported. "The momentum of the recovery is decidedly fading," says...