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...advertising pamphlets first published by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 created a revolution in marketing: the mail-order catalog. Known as the great wish book, Ward's catalog provided the mostly rural U.S. population with everything a family needed, from swaddling clothes and calico to barbed wire and tombstones. Over the years, the catalog grew thicker and slicker. Among the fashion models who graced its pages were Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward and Suzy Parker. But competition from more specialized retailers gradually eroded the selling power of the book. Last week Montgomery Ward President Bernard Brennan announced that the last catalog...
...getting the message and beginning to distribute the BEE wealth over a wider socioeconomic swath. In February, banking and insurance group First Rand finalized a $1.2 billion empowerment deal that will put 10% of the company's shares in trusts established for black staff members as well as poor rural women and mine workers...
...Sexual Studies A and B. “Sex Studies A” will deal with broad-based themes, like sexual chemistry, trust, compromise, dialogue, and the development of mature relationships. “Sex Studies B” will examine more particular issues, like foot fetishes in rural Mongolia...
Armstrong, who grew up in rural Virginia, came to Boston with relatives in 1961. After serving as a medic in the Army and later as an Emergency Medical Services paramedic, he got a job driving the M2 shuttle, ferrying students from Harvard Yard to the Longwood Medical Campus...
Political discussion was only an aspect of the diverse NGO forum. Groups as varied as International Planned Parenthood, the Girl Guides Association of Thailand and the World YWCA organized about 1,800 workshops and seminars with such titles as "Women in Rural Development" and "What If Women Ruled the World?" American women in tank tops, Africans in brightly colored kangas and Indians in diaphanous saris wandered through exhibits like "Tech and Tools," inspecting innovative fish smokers from Ghana and concrete stoves from Fiji. Although several of the forum participants, including 19 Chinese, were double delegates representing the policy of their...