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...laid. Today there is a general softening in attitude. The days of the hard hustle are gone." Says Stephen Greer, 33, co-owner of three Chicago nightclubs: "If you don't work in a candy store, every piece of candy looks great. But today everybody works in a candy store???it's so easy for everybody to have sex. So people are becoming more selective: holding out for just the right candy, just the right person...
...department-store??answer to What to give the person who has everything? typically comes down to dollars: Saks Fifth Avenue offers a $215,000 bottle of perfume; British retailer Fortnum & Mason has a $41,000 Christmas basket--including caviar, champagne and foie gras--that is delivered by horse and carriage; and Neiman Marcus, ever determined to be the most ridiculous, is touting a $1.4 million Triton 1000 submarine with leather seats...
Whereas many retail insiders counted out the beleaguered department store???assuming it would be sold off in pieces once it was put on the block in January 2006, after Federated merged with May Co.?Baker saw a chance to revitalize an iconic brand name. He and his three NRDC Equity partners (one of whom is his father Robert Baker) bought the property for about $1.1 billion, a small stake in Federated's $27 billion business in annual sales. "What we liked about Lord & Taylor was that it had great DNA, a very solid management team and a large amount...
...Trading Post Enterprises, which grosses $500,000 a year from making bondage materials, whips, chains and other devices, mostly for the homosexual trade, and selling them on the premises in a cluster of "boutiques." Says Morris: "We're trying to be the world's first and only gay department store???a gay Macy...
...cheer when Lindy came to town. Five years later, Halaby took his first plane ride in an OX 5 Travel Air and enrolled in a flying course. He borrowed $6,500 from his parents?who ran an art shop on the top floor of the Neiman-Marcus department store???to buy a Fairchild 24 sports plane, and kept on flying through college days at Stanford, the University of Michigan and Yale Law School (LL.B., '40). During World War II, Halaby helped organize the Navy's test-pilot school at Patuxent River, Md., and flew the world's first combat...