Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haircut, buy a refrigerator and stock up on paper towels in one trip. Most "malls without walls," as Walton calls them, draw crowds with an old-fashioned lure: everyday discounts. Prices are reduced as much as 40% below the full retail level. Hypermarkets make money even at such thin profit margins because they sell such an enormous volume of goods. Hypermarket sales average at least $1 million a week, compared with $200,000 for a conventional-size discount store...
...foreign invader wheeled into Brussels last week in a shiny black Mercedes and swept immediately into a jammed press conference. Wearing a gray pinstriped suit and smoking a thin cigar, Carlo De Benedetti, the Italian industrialist, began confidently. "Allow me to introduce myself," he said. "I was born in Turin. I'm 53 years old. I'm not really sure where I live, but it's somewhere between Turin, Milan and airplanes." Then the high-flying entrepreneur proceeded to explain why he wanted to do what many proud Belgians viewed as the unthinkable, to gain control of Societe Generale...
...major Hollywood studios still produce Beta versions of their movies, retail stores and rental shops devote most of their shelf space these days to the more popular (and more profitable) newly released VHS versions of such films as Roxanne and Tin Men. But as the ranks of Beta devotees thin out, they have one small consolation. They will face less competition in renting the Beta ) tapes still available. When they want to check out that well-worn Beta copy of Annie Hall, Star Wars or the very first Rocky movie, it is almost always on the shelf...
...shoulders of a man 6 ft. tall. Harper did not make the dog: he bought it from another dealer. "I'm trying out the statue first before I order the mold," he explains, while Ray nods sagely. "I don't trust those hind legs. They're so thin I think they'll crack, and I don't see how we could reinforce them." If there is a way, though, Harper will probably find it, and connoisseurs of concrete will find it harder than ever to narrow down their choices...
...Tony Coelho (D-Calif.) the chief vote counter for House Democrats. said the margin for the showdown vote remains razor-thin, with a group of 30 to 50 members considered crucial...