Word: brennan
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Fearing the answer, shopkeepers are bracing for what may be the toughest Christmas selling season in a decade. Says Bernard Brennan, chief executive of Montgomery Ward: "There are more negative dynamics working than at any other time I've seen in my entire marketing career." After a year in which retail sales barely kept up with a 4.8% inflation rate, merchants have watched even that shopping pace flag just before the onset of the most important selling season of the year, one that typically accounts for as much as 60% of annual retail profits. Overall, sales (excluding gasoline) fell...
These words, written by Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan in a 1976 case, reflect the vigilance against censorship that has pervaded the Court's attitude for most of this century. The American judicial system has long recognized prior restraint of speech as antithetical to the principles of democracy. But a decision last week proved a dangerous departure from that tradition. By refusing to strike down a ban on broadcast of the so-called Noriega tapes, the Court gave encouragement to those would seek further regulation of the press...
...women in federal prisons have been convicted of drug-related offenses, but that tells only part of the story. Many other crimes -- theft, prostitution, armed robbery -- are also drug related. At the Rose M. Singer jail for women on New York City's Rikers Island, warden Robert Brennan estimates that drugs underlie the incarceration of 95% of his inmates...
...John McKernan clung to a lead over former Gov. Joseph Brennan in Maine...
...part-time songwriter. "Never. They're probably afraid somebody'd hit them with a bar stool." A reasonable fear, if pollsters are right about the level of voter disgust with the budget debacle. "Will I pay new, higher taxes, even if I think they're unfair?" asks Will Brennan, a business representative for the electrician's union in Chicago. "What choice do I have? I can't go throw tea in the harbor...