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Discount stores like Syms and Daffy's still draw customers by offering sharp suits (including some unsold European-designer merchandise) at sharply cut prices. Designers and retailers who work the high end with a continental flair are also flourishing. GFT USA, the American branch of the large Italian textile company that manufactures and distributes such lines as Armani and Joseph Abboud throughout the U.S., estimates that it has cornered 20% of the higher-priced men's market (anywhere from $800 up), about double its share of only five years ago. Says Alan Bilzerian, who sells his own line of stylishly...
...coming months, COCA hopes to start an education program and branch out to other Central American countries, Plummer said...
...Houston a stay-at-home dad kisses his pregnant wife goodbye as she heads for the office, and then turns back to the task of getting their four children fed, washed and ready for the day ahead. In Long Branch, N.J., parents work alternate shifts -- she during the day at a hospital accounting office; he at night, as a security guard -- so that their three kids won't be left with strangers. In Lincoln, Neb., a divorced mother of four -- one of the nation's 9.3 million single parents -- depends on her eldest daughter to fill in while...
...Branch Library, Aberdeen...
...advertising agencies to create Earth-saving messages, and offered to provide a national showcase for the winners. More than 325 firms submitted entries, and a 13-member panel of art directors and copywriters picked the best 10. The winners were chosen from eight regions, corresponding to TIME's branch advertising-sales offices, plus two "at large" selections. The ads were displayed at the Plaza Hotel on Oct. 10 during an awards luncheon, with TIME and the Advertising Club of New York as hosts. Here is our gallery of the finest, each of which will appear in TIME's pages...