Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influx at the monasteries includes a small contingent of Gen Xers, but the majority are their baby-boomer parents, taking stock of the past as they swing around to look into the fog of the future. "You peel off life's accessories and come in nakedness before the Lord, asking 'What do I do with my life?'" says Father Tom Gedeon of Notre Dame's Retreat International association, explaining the appeal of retreats. But isn't this just the latest fad of the Me generation? Twig Branch, 42, a Presbyterian insurance agent based in Charlotte, N.C., who first attended...
...more: these days Blockbuster is stocking its shelves with three times as many copies of new releases and guaranteeing that such hits as Good Will Hunting will be in stock, or next time they're free. It is making other customer-friendly changes too, like lowering the price on older movies. The company is backing it all with a $160 million advertising blitz that features a chorus of blue Blockbuster boxes driving home the point with their rendition of I'll Be There...
...world's largest carmaker will face the same problems it had before: declining market share, bloated payrolls and a bitter, distrustful union that will fight changes every step of the way. The company's future certainly looks bleak to investors: As details of the settlement emerged Wednesday morning, GM stock slipped...
Oddly, my partner and I had just done the right thing a few weeks before, dumping Sunbeam when it first declined to talk about its sales numbers. We feared there might be a secret warehouse somewhere stuffed with unsold barbecue grills. Good worry; the stock now sits 40 points lower, and the board has pulled the plug on Chainsaw Al Dunlop. Why? A massive overstatement of sales and earnings...
...criminal investigations through week's end. A number of class-action suits have been filed, but I doubt we will see much after the lawyers take their cuts. Looks as though the only winners here were the two top executives, who together sold more than $100 million worth of stock before we even smelled that first hint of trouble. The losers: those of us who believed that someone who once misled us wouldn't do it again...