Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many businessmen who cannot survive the high interest rates end up in bankruptcy. Dun & Bradstreet reports that there were 11,782 bankruptcies in 1980, in contrast with 7,757 in 1979. Small business is suffering especially hard. Last year, for example, 1,600 auto dealers had to close up shop because they were squeezed between high interest rates and low sales. Many people starting new companies are being forced to retrench. Don Middleberg, who is chairman of his own New York advertising and public relations firm, put off the purchase of a badly needed $16,000 word processor last month...
...year tenure at Georgia is the fourth longest of active college coaches, and his record of 129 wins, 56 losses and six ties is eighth best in the nation. At 48, he has won four S.E.C. titles, an impressive mark in a conference where Bryant keeps shop. Yet Dooley is not haunted by his illustrious rival. "My very first game as a 31-year-old college coach, I had to go to Tuscaloosa and play Alabama. They creamed us 31-3. Welcome to the big time, Vince. But the next year we beat them 18-17. His shadow doesn...
There was a long queue last week at the bread shop on Leningrad's Nevsky Prospekt. "They are selling special holiday loaves," explained a woman in line, as she stamped her feet against the cold. Yes, she knew about the U.S. grain embargo, imposed a year ago this week. "But it hasn't affected us," she insisted...
...Vuitton initials, however, are now so ubiquitous that some of the firm's traditional customers are grumbling. Said one impeccably dressed matron who stopped at Vuitton's Manhattan shop last week to ask about the plain bags: "I don't want my friends to think I'm adhering to the fad of having designer initials on everything." Vuitton will still make its standard initialed line for those who wish to be walking billboards...
...spite of mixed reviews through the first third of the season, Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin isn't about to take his squad back into the shop for anything approaching heavy editing...