Word: sales
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...from a base of $2.35 trillion on Oct. 1, 1987). Says inventor Warren Dennis, a Pasadena, Calif., tinkerer and punster: "Maybe when people see the national debt like this, right in front of them, they'll take an interest in the issue." He promises to donate $1 from each sale of the toy, named Debtman, to a fund to reduce the debt...
Goodwin said the store would soon hold a fire sale of equipment that the eight workers had salvaged so far. Asked about insurance, Goodwin said his business' fire insurance had been cancelled two years ago because of the building's condition...
...billion offer from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a New York City investment firm, Kroger's management proposed to sell off dozens of properties, slash costs and offer its stockholders cash and bonds worth up to $60 a share. Says Kroger CEO Lyle Everingham: "The company is not for sale...
...long hours ((for her)) hidden behind a sand dune," writes Francois Mitterrand about the first time he was smitten, at 15. Mitterrand's poignant reminiscence of pursuing -- and failing to catch -- an unnamed girl during a family vacation in Belgium appears in Their Very First Time, which goes on sale in France this week. The volume includes the romantic flashbacks of 95 other notables, including generals, civil servants and a race-car driver...
Washington so far has been trying to play it cool, avoiding the emotionalism that in the past has paralyzed U.S. foreign policy and led to the Iran arms- sale fiasco. Officials sketch a three-part approach. First, the U.S. will talk informally with anyone, anytime. "We keep in touch," says National Security Adviser Colin Powell; he will not say with whom. Second, Washington will officially negotiate only with an "authoritative" representative of the Tehran government, and that stage has not yet been reached. Says one State Department official: "We hear from people who say they know somebody who knows somebody...