Word: vernon
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...Enter retail. It's certainly not rosy in retail-land: The Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon Crop and Bombay Company have all declared bankruptcy. Ann Taylor announced the phaseout of 117 of its 921 stores over the next three years and Liz Claiborne is shutting down 54 Sigrid Olson shops this year. Talbots streamlined 22 more stores in addition to the 78 it already had announced while also ending Talbots Mens and Talbots Kids. The International Council of Shopping Centers forecasts that store closings could reach 5,770 this year - the highest since...
...money made from purloined art sometimes goes into the coffers of drug and arms dealers, even terrorists. "We have indisputable evidence that criminal networks are involved in art crime," says Vernon Rapley, head of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Unit. There's no way to measure accurately how much the illicit art trade - which includes stolen art, fakes, forgeries and looted artifacts - is actually worth. But some estimates run as high as $6 billion a year...
Small distilleries were as common as cows in American farming communities before the Volstead Act banned the "manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors" in the U.S. in 1919. Indeed, the No. 1-selling spirits marketer of the early Republic was George Washington, whose Mount Vernon estate sold 11,000 gal. (42,000 L) of whiskey a year at 50¢ a gal. (3.8 L). After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the small wine and beer industries eventually got back on their feet, but hard liquor was considered more harmful and the prohibitively priced licenses for distilling spirits meant that only...
...DAVID P. VERNON, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...Then came new French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the crafty political operator known for exploiting his opponents' weaknesses in ways they don't expect. A social dinner Tuesday night at the White House was followed by a trip Wednesday to Mount Vernon set the collegial tone. And Bush laid it on thick at a joint press conference at Washington's home Wednesday, saying Sarkozy had "impressed a lot of people here on your journey," and telling the French leader that he has "a strong set of universal values in your heart...