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Despite its fast growth, Reyers still manages to keep service on a personal level, even on Saturdays, when the store is chaotic. Customers select styles from shoes on display, but then one of Reyers' 88 salespeople is there to help with the fitting. One of them is Larry Joltin, 41, the hottest shoe salesman in America. Joltin sells nearly $500,000 worth of men's shoes a year, roughly a pair every 15 minutes. In 1982, he walked away with the National Shoe Retailers Association award. His $424,848 worth of sales put him so far ahead...
...family's conversion to Christianity is fuel for the gossips of 19th century Paris. He is a talented dilettante always working on an unseen book, an aesthete always surrounded by beautiful objects. Yet any possible cinematic beauty is subdued in Swann's apartments. His rooms look musty, they invite select rays of sun; in short, his enviroment reflects his thoughts...
...believe this trade is in the best interest of both the Oilers and Earl," said Oilers General Manager Ladd Herzeg, "because it gives us the opportunity to select an outstanding young player next year and it gives Earl the chance at this stage of his career to hopefully be bound for the playoffs...
...learning and discovery, Universities must maintain a reasonable autonomy in the conduct of their internal affairs. They must persuade the outside would to refrain form exerting pressure that would limit the freedom of their members to speak and publish as they choose. They must also preserve the freedom to select the best political activities and to set their own policies without external control save by the government in behalf of established public ends...
Meese clearly did select Edwin W. Thomas as an aide to his White House office after Thomas had offered Meese's wife an interest-free $15,000 loan. The loan was later granted, but Meese failed to report it on his financial-disclosure statements. Stein concluded that Thomas got the job because of his longstanding personal and professional relationship with Meese, rather than as a result of any transaction. While "an inference of willful nondisclosure arguably could be drawn," Stein wrote, he could find no motive for Meese to conceal the loan and therefore he accepted Meese...