Word: trades
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...Times. But the Fayeds have also inflicted much damage on themselves, starting with their unsuccessful attempts to rewrite their history. In 1985 the largely unknown Fayed brothers paid $689 million in cash for the House of Fraser retail chain (whose flagship was Harrods). Two years later, the Department of Trade and Industry--at the instigation of al Fayed's chief rival for control of Harrods--began investigating the family. Its report, published in 1990, concluded that the brothers did not hail, as they had claimed, from "an old Egyptian family" with a 100-year history of landownership and shipbuilding...
...this had promised to be a darkly hued fall for the Vice President. After spending the past two years trying to mend his relations with organized labor, Gore this week will join Clinton in reopening an old wound as the Administration launches its bid for new authority to negotiate trade deals as ambitious and divisive as 1993's North American Free Trade Agreement. December will find Gore in Japan grappling with a global-warming treaty that pits his long-standing environmentalist allies against labor and business...
...Manning was a political radical, and when the dockers went on strike, causing the possible ruin of themselves and their families as well as disrupting trade on an unparalleled scale in 1889, it was Manning who intervened and eventually settled it. A "toff" had never shown the common touch this way in English public life. And it was to this the public responded. He had the largest crowd at his funeral of any figure in the 19th century--bigger even than Queen Victoria's. People queued and stretched all the way from the Brompton Oratory to Kensal Green...
...felt that this was a pretty good offering to open up with," Condenzio said. "It's just a matter of space, of wondering if we have to add those other items or trade them out if the others aren't as successful. In order to keep the space interesting and inviting, you want to keep those other concepts on the shelf as needed...
...felt that this was a pretty good offering to open up with," Condenzio said. "It's just a matter of space, of wondering if we have to add those other items or trade them out if the others aren't as successful. In order to keep the space interesting and inviting, you want to keep those other concepts on the shelf as needed...