Word: stores
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...white-collar Asians in the region's booming economies sought out new sounds to grace their suddenly affordable turntables and cassette players. Older listeners, bored with rock, began to trade up to West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers in Hong Kong penthouses and Tokyo wine bars...
...Gulfport, many businesses boarded up and closed by 10 a.m., while others, including Wal-Mart, closed shortly after noon. The early closings caught most people by surprise and sparked a brief frenzy as people rushed from store to store, trying to find last minute items. Janette Mederos was among nearly 200 people who crowded into Fred's, one of the few stores still open by 2 p.m. Though many shoppers were visibly frustrated to find empty shelves where batteries, candles, and flashlights once stood, Mederos took it all in stride, loading her cart with tiki torches and charcoal...
...agree with the interviewee who said, "I have a Chevrolet taste on a Mercedes income." The contemporary wealthy shopper, say the authors, is "the logic shopper" (70%) whose middle-class upbringing leads to a focus on value and due diligence before a purchase. That may explain why the retail store most likely to have been shopped in by this demographic is Target (80%). Why pay more for the same roll of toilet paper...
...being invested in projects around the city, including a new medical school that Doherty says will employ 1,000 people. The city web site boasts about recent infusions into its downtown from companies like drug maker Sanofi Pasteur, which now occupies space in a former Woolworth department store. Last year, the Yankees moved its AAA farm team here from Columbus, Ohio; in May, Money magazine named Scranton one of the ten fastest-growing real estate markets in the country. This growth is proof of Doherty's mantra: If you make it nice, they will come. The mayor and other local...
...mining town of Douglas, Ariz., just above the Mexican border, Emanuel Farber was born on Feb. 20, 1917, youngest of a store owner's three sons. "I had two brothers who were fiendishly good at almost everything they approached," he recalled in the Art in America interview, "and they were fiendishly competitive." Both of his elder siblings became psychiatrists; one, Leslie, was a distinguished author. "And I had a father who was equally competitive." Farber, Sr., originally from Vilna, Lithuania, had studied to be a rabbi, and schmoozing must have been in the syllabus. "I picked up the congenial element...