Word: ward
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...service nonexistent and the merchandise ubiquitous without being interesting. "Department stores have lost sight of their customer. It's that simple," says Janet Hoffman, a San Francisco--based retail strategist for Accenture. Sales tumbled, and chain after chain of historic, family-owned retailers--Gimbels, Woodward & Lothrop, Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward--closed their doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were in business; today there are only 13. The merger is the category's last-gasp effort to save itself. "It represents the best chance to stop the decline of the department...
...Democrats of Cambridge’s 8th Ward will send an Eliot House senior to the party’s state convention this June, while Democratic voters in Boston elected a Matthews Hall freshman as one of their delegates...
...Lagerfeld says. He has launched himself in the U.S. with characteristic gusto: setting up shop in the same loft building as Martha Stewart's office in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, purchasing an apartment near Gramercy Park and hiring a team of designers headed by the stylist Melanie Ward, a former creative director for Helmut Lang. And the collection is all about Lagerfeld, from his signature on one T shirt to the photo of the designer as a young man on another. In a first for the fashion industry, Apple will offer a video podcast of Lagerfeld's show...
University President Lawrence H. Summers sounded a cautious note on the booming global economy last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he warned that adjustments are needed to ward off a major economic crisis in the near future...
...blacks fleeing, which is causing headaches for Democrats like the Landrieus, who traditionally win big in black districts. Nagin, by comparison, is not considered a true Democrat and, his recent remarks notwithstanding, does not cater to the black vote machine. "If a Mayor is to [help] repopulate the Ninth Ward," says Stonecipher, "Nobody is more dependable than a Landrieu...