Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...additional 12 million catalogue customers. Sears wants to entice current customers to buy more once they are in the store. So far the company thinks it has succeeded. In the new stores, according to Brennan, "the average transaction per customer is substantially higher. In towels, washcloths, carpeting, toilet covers, for instance, people are picking up armfuls." At new stores in King of Prussia, Pa., and Valley Stream, N.Y., sales per sq. ft. are projected to be 50% higher than at newly opened traditional stores...
...ladder of excess, his bad taste escalates as well. He trades in his yellow Caddy with the tiger-skin upholstery for a $43,000 gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls, and mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The mansion of Tony's dreams boasts an Olympic-size bathtub; in the foyer, statues of the Three Graces support a huge gold globe bearing the legend THE WORLD is YOURS...
...Haven jail. They could not see each other, but they could talk to each other. From other parts of the jail, they could hear people screaming and banging against the walls. Each of their cells had metal walls and metal beds and John's had a toilet that flushed every five minutes...
YALE 30, COLUMBIA 28--The true Toilet Bowl of the Ivies pits the best passer (Columbia) and the worst defense against the best coach and the most injured players (Yale). Both teams are deservedly winless. Yale is 0-4 for the first time in its 112 seasons. Unfortunately, the Elis...
...They had two systems for the economy ? 'line authority' and 'bloc authority.' " Line authority ran from the central-government ministries down to the smallest factories and mines in China, north or south. "We found one factory with 4,000 workers but only one toilet. The workers would line up for hours to get to the toilet. But any building of more than 200 sq. ft. had to be approved by line authority at the top, the State Planning Commission in Peking. Should such a committee have to decide about toilets? We had a factory in Hebei that produced good...