Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brennan, 51, will head a firm whose core business, merchandising, has been in a slump. Sears' profits sagged 25% in the second quarter, and third- quarter earnings are likely to be down. Brennan is counting on a credit card that Sears launched last summer to help reverse that trend. Called Discover, the card enables holders to get auto loans, invest in savings instruments and, of course, to shop at Sears. Brennan expects to sign up at least 10 million subscribers. Retailing, meanwhile, still runs in his family. Watching Brennan's progress closely will be his brother Bernard, the president...
...during the early 1970s that Times Beach, looking to keep down the summer dust, hired a fellow to spread oil on ten miles of unpaved streets. Unfortunately, the oilman also filled his truck with waste sludge from a downstate chemical factory, and so for at least a couple of summers, he sprayed tens of thousands of gallons of a dioxin-laced goo all over town. The agent of the town's destruction was a man named Russell Bliss. "Do I blame Bliss?" asks Joe Capstick, who lived in Times Beach 14 years and, after the town's demise, moved down...
Breaking new ground last summer, a Harvard archaeologist directed the American half of a joint U.S./Russian expedition that uncovered a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization...
...summer of 1981, Jim Morrison appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. The caption read, "He's hot, he's sexy, and he's dead." And the editors of Rolling Stone are tasteless. And astute. After all, they were on to something...
...have much chance of getting one. The agency promised Harvard two years that it would demand proof of age from all its patrons. Although HSA has been lax, no underage student will be drinking English ale, French champagne, Spanish sangaria and German bier on an international i.d. "Over the summer we had some problems with it because we didn't really know the policy," she says, "But ever since school started, we've been really strict about checking the birth date...