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...many people think they were in the wrong store, we put up a sign YES! THIS IS SEARS." The company is betting heavily on the success of its new look. Twelve of the stores have opened in time for Christmas, and 99 more will be remodeled or built from scratch next year. By 1989, Sears will spend $1.7 billion to spruce up 600 of its 831 retail stores and build 62 new ones. It is the most expensive facelift in the company's history...
...LIKE TO WALK through the Square periodically to keep pace with the comings and goings of the local shops. With each changing of the guard, there's always the hope some aspiring business man will finally get it right and scratch your four-year itch...
Starting from scratch, but with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name simply as a lure to discontented workers. In so far as it has a doctrine, National Socialism promises the bulk of the German people whatever they want...
...hands, ailurophobes around West Germany have launched a campaign to kill more cats than curiosity itself. Some have shot the creatures with air pistols or flung them to the ground from sixth-floor balconies. Others have poisoned, strangled, axed or blinded cats. Their rationale: cats gobble up plants, scratch the paint off cars and even startle innocents by peering at them through windows. As a result, an estimated 300,000 cats, perhaps 10% of West Germany's feline population, were killed last year alone. According to Dr. Erwin Muermann of the Bonn Cat Protection Initiative, the present epidemic...
Their adventures are rough as they scratch and claw their way to the ranks of the in-crowd. Beresford lets on that this is only a phase the girls are experiencing, but he doesn't spare them any pain, as they deceive their parents, get suspended from school, and stagnate with their new friends...