Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board. Evidently they took the well-dressed 38-year-old Grayson, one of the highest- ranking officials in New York, for a mugger. "It makes me sizzle," he says, "because it means that no matter what I accomplish as an individual, I will always be judged by what people see first, my color...
...crowd began forming early at the Golf Mill shopping center in Niles, Ill. When the doors at the Sears, Roebuck store finally opened at noon, customers were welcomed with coffee, cake and brightly colored balloons. From Waikiki to Watertown, N.Y., crowds poured into Sears' 823 outlets last week to see firsthand the transformation of America's largest retailer. After closing its stores for 42 hours -- the longest weekday shutdown in the retail chain's 103-year history -- Sears permanently slashed prices by as much as 50% on 50,000 products, or about three-fourths of its inventory...
...Target and Toys "R" Us. Shopper Nichelle Smith, 20, who went to a Sears outlet in suburban St. Louis last week to shop for inexpensive children's clothing, appreciated the lower prices but wondered whether Sears will stay competitive. Said she: "I'm going to come back and see if this is the real story...
...full week the firing of a subordinate who had made blatantly anti-Semitic speeches. Sawyer was reduced to claiming that he had accepted the keys to city hall in order to achieve gains for blacks. "Had I not taken those keys," declared Sawyer, "the ethnic rainbow we see would not be there. I'm going to keep the keys to keep the dream alive...
...SALT II down the drain." But Nunn wasn't implacably hostile. His support of the Panama Canal treaty gave Carter one of his greatest victories. "I think it would have lost if I hadn't gone along," says Nunn. "There were at least two Senators who were waiting to see which way I'd go." (When Nunn boasts, which is rarely, it is almost always at Carter's expense...