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...Porter Square was now looming, and Harvard drifted farther from my mind. The nearly Art-Deco opulence of the old Sears & Roebuck, building tempted me with the siren song of the Gap, but I resisted, the voice of my editor still echoing in my ears. "Further on, further in," I mused, "to Somerville!" And not just any Somerville--not the one of Inman Square and summertime living--but something a little seedier and a hell of a lot closer to Tufts...
...Illinois gave $240 million in economic incentives to Sears, Roebuck & Co. to keep its corporate headquarters and 5,400 workers in the state by moving from Chicago to suburban Hoffman Estates. That amounted to a subsidy of $44,000 for each...
With a concrete Sears Roebuck facade and windows filled by trendy Gap jeans, Cambridge's Porter Exchange building seems to have all the elements of mainstream America...
Unlike such capital-intensive alterations as installing ramps or lowering drinking fountains, accommodating the mentally ill in fact often requires little more than an attitude adjustment. The Sears, Roebuck 1996 Work Force report showed that the average cost to the company for such accommodation in 1993-95 was zero. Employees with a learning disability were permitted to work at a slower pace; those with mental illness were offered shorter shifts, lower-stress duties or flexible work hours. According to studies conducted by the Matrix Research Institute in Philadelphia, which specializes in mental-health disorders, the majority of accommodations cost less...
What do women want? For years, the top brass at Sears, Roebuck and Co. had nary a clue. Store managers saw nothing amiss in displaying intimate apparel from the same rack fixtures that were used to sell paints. "Sears frustrated and disappointed our customers over a long period of time," says chairman and CEO Arthur Martinez, who arrived in 1992 from Saks Fifth Avenue, where he had been vice chairman, with prayerful instructions to save the Big Store. "If we didn't act quickly, the end game was a slow death for the company...