Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attract hundreds of autograph seekers. Most important, since his TV debut in 1982, Federated's sales have surged 80%, and the 16-year-old company has grown from 15 outlets to 60. Says Marketing Vice President Gary Tobey: "He's made us seem like a more fun place to shop...
...million teaching Californians to pronounce his name. (Try shout without the t.) This campaign, in a state as vast and variegated as California, must be waged in 60-second television ads, which must be fueled by endless fund raisers. As Zschau explains, between bites of an airport snack shop's meatball sandwich, "You simply can't shake enough hands and kiss enough babies to get elected in this state...
...Bail is told by an educated Indian woman who has thrown her prospects away on an idler named Rajee. She supports them both by working in a shop, while he makes imaginary business deals in coffee- houses and visits his mistress twice a week. Rajee is arrested for some unspecified offense; the woman's father, who sacrificed so that she might improve her standing in society, mourns loudly over the disastrous course she has chosen. She remembers instead how her father and Rajee agreed to her marriage after she had poured kerosene over her clothes and prepared to set herself...
Unable to attract the youthful or specialized workers that they want, some employers are turning to senior citizens or the handicapped, among others. In Atlanta, one burger shop boasts an 80-year-old kitchen worker, while at a school for the deaf an information session on the jobs that deaf workers can effectively perform drew representatives from 20 local companies. Some firms are looking overseas for aid. Last October Grumman, the Long Island, N.Y., aerospace company, hired 28 engineers from Britain for six months to help design U.S. military aircraft. Says Miriam Reid, a Grumman spokeswoman...
...sons of an Iraqi Jew who arrived in Britain during World War II and started a successful textile business, the Saatchis opened their own shop while both were still in their 20s. The two ad brats created a sensation during their first year in business with a widely reprinted ad for Britain's Family Planning Association that pictured a young man with a bulging abdomen and asked, "Would you be more careful if it was you that got pregnant?" The Saatchis aroused London's sleepy advertising industry with ads that ran the gamut from funny to blunt to dazzling. Their...