Word: roebuck
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Many dealers across the country agree, noting that since 1980 their sales of home equipment have been rising about 30% to 65% a year. Sears, Roebuck, which advertised a primitive rowing machine in its 1920s mail-order catalogs, has devoted 31 pages of its fall-winter catalog to home-fitness devices. Says Richard Williford, a Sears spokesman: "This has been the strongest-selling merchandise in our sporting-goods department this year." Among the favored items, say equipment dealers: rowing machines ($75 to $3,000 for the computerized, gadget-laden models), stationary bicycles ($75 to $3,000), treadmills...
Even before he joined Sears, Roebuck in 1956 as a salesman in Madison, Wisc., there was little doubt that Edward Brennan would find a home in the company. Working for Sears was a tradition in Brennan's family: both his parents were buyers for the firm, as were a grandfather and two uncles. Brennan, however, rose much farther through the ranks of the largest U.S. retailer. When Chairman Edward Telling, 66, announced last week that he will retire at year's end, it came as no surprise that he named Brennan, Sears' president since 1984, as his successor...
Question: What do the following have in common? The Sears, Roebuck Mail Order Catalog. Collected Poems 1947-1980 of Allen Ginsberg. Elvis, by Albert Goldman. Jane Fonda's Workout Book. Iacocca. The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss. The Rand McNally Road Atlas. The Union of Concerned Scientists' The Fallacy of Star Wars. An eclectic selection of summer reading? Not quite. They are among the 313 books chosen by a committee of ten literary figures for an exhibition at the Moscow International Book Fair called "America Through American Eyes...
...file into a gaslit packing shed to hear a tirade against the agents of the Antichrist. First they hear a harangue, then on cassette the voice of an American who claims to have defected from the forces of darkness. The agents of Satan, he rants, include the Kennedys, Sears, Roebuck, the Rothschilds and the Council on Foreign Relations. On and on the babble continues: "Elton John and the Beatles actually sang in the secret language of witches . . . The pyramid on the dollar bill was the Illuminati's seal: The blocks of stone symbolized its organization...
...pressure Weinberger to pare back his spending request. The President invariably sides with Weinberger. He continues to think of him as Cap the Knife, a budgetmaker who does not ask for anything that is not necessary. Says Frank Carlucci, Weinberger's deputy for two years and now a Sears, Roebuck executive: "It's that constituency of one that makes all the difference...