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When we went to purchase a new washer and dryer, the Sears salesperson was more interested in selling an expensive service contract than in explaining the machines. The 50 baby chicks ordered in April have not yet arrived; there is no trace of the order except on our bill. Last summer it took more than six weeks to get a part for our Sears riding mower. Perhaps a little less attention to investments, real estate and insurance and more attention to value and service will help Sears continue its success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Sears | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...teenagers, they bought Halloween costumes at Sears. By the age of 16 they were going through the store and pointing to things that they would some day have in their home. Married five years ago at 18rthey outfitted their new two-bedroom house at Sears. Lisa got a Kenmore washer and dryer as birthday and Christmas presents. The couple also bought a blender, a mixer, a coffeemaker, a toaster, an iron, a shower curtain and living-room curtains from Sears. When they needed to fence in their yard, they got a Sears fence. Now the Fords are planning a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...temporary triumph of optimism; Enrique becomes a waiter in a posh restaurant; Rosa finds work first in a garment factory (where she sees models "Just like in a magazine!") and then as housemaid to an amusingly prim matron who unsuccessfully tries to teach her how to operate a computerized washer-dryer...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Tunnel to Freedom? | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

...came to wash his office windows, that Gustafson appreciated the full extent of the problem. "He asked me in Spanish if he could come in," Gustafson recalls. "It was apparent the guy didn't belong here." The INS official promptly began deportation proceedings against the undocumented window washer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Control of the Borders | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...lavish four-room apartment on Kutuzkovsky Prospekt. After carefully hanging his western made coat in the hall closet, he opened the bottle of American vodka he had been saving for a celebration. Then he called to his wife who was just taking some laundry out of the Maytag washer-dryer...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Russian Roulette | 11/13/1982 | See Source »

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