Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mart's frenetic growth has made the company a star on Wall Street, where its stock has skyrocketed almost nonstop since it went public in 1970. An original investment in 100 shares, which sold for about $1,650 back then, would be worth more than $700,000 today...
Humility is Wal-Mart's watchword, which filters down from Mr. Sam. The billionaire, whose family owns 38% of the company's stock, lives in Bentonville with his wife Helen in a modest brick-and-wood ranch-style house. Their names are on the mailbox, and it was only a few years ago that they installed a security system. All their children, three sons and a daughter, are grown. Walton typically rises before dawn and eats breakfast at the Ramada Inn coffee shop on his way to work. Along the way he may stop at Barber John Mayhall...
...stock response "If you don't like it, you don't have to listen" is a phony argument. No one has the right to foul the airways any more than he has a right to foul the streets. God bless those in the FCC who have the courage to try to enforce a level of decency...
...office. But in the wake of revelations that for decades he concealed much of his record as an officer in the German army during World War II, Waldheim has not formally received even one foreign head of state or paid a single official visit abroad, duties that are the stock-in-trade of his largely ceremonial office. Last week, in the most damaging blow yet, the Reagan Administration barred Waldheim from traveling...
...reporter for the Seattle Times. "When you get out in the world you don't always have time to stop--the University is handing out an opportunity to do that," said Dietrich, adding that most of the Journalists selected are in their mid-thirties, and ready to take stock of their careers...