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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next year, Sears' 17,000 service vans will begin offering 24-hour on-call repair service for any brand of appliance, whether or not Sears sold it. That way, Martinez hopes to transform a $3 billion repair and improvement business built on Sears' customer base into at least a $10 billion one within three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REINVENTING SEARS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...institutionalize the no-haggle car purchase, spruce up car lots, give unhappy buyers full refunds, offer used-car buyers decent warranties and generally make the car-buying experience easier to stomach. These are not new ideas, but Huizenga plans to carry them out on a scale that would literally transform every aspect of car retailing. This is a glimpse of Wayne's Auto World, where the same formula that has revolutionized video and trash will be put to work on wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAYNE'S NEW WORLD | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young, and leave a memory that time can transform into gaudy myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MADONNA AND EVA PERON: YOU MUST LOVE HER | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...committed to not permitting the university to...transform decent jobs at Yale to low wage, no benefit jobs," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Students Arrested During Union Protest | 12/13/1996 | See Source »

...main product was stock of an outfit called DeVoe-Holbein International, a company that boasted a very interesting technology: one that could essentially extract gold and other valuable minerals from wastewater and seawater. It was a lure reminiscent of the medieval alchemists who claimed to be able to transform base metals into gold, with equally unimpressive results. Dutch authorities raided First Commerce in 1986 and forced it into bankruptcy the following year. Thousands of investors lost money, including many Americans living abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF JB OXFORD | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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