Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just have to wait. And what was the big occasion? Opening day of a sale at Tuesday Morning. The offbeat discount retailer, with stores in 52 cities, engenders a loyalty bordering on fanaticism among its customers. And that loyalty has fostered frantic growth. Since 1980, the Dallas-based discount chain (estimated 1990 sales: $110 million) has expanded from 35 outlets to 132 stores in 21 states, with profits climbing from $695,000 to a projected $5 million this year...
...saying, 'Get away with it if you want, but why are you bothering?' " says Robert DiLonardo, marketing chief of Security Tags Systems Inc., the major U.S. manufacturer. His firm has marketed nearly 2 million of the Swedish-invented tags to about 200 U.S. stores. One chain's losses were reportedly...
...intended to single our students for bashing. Would that the problem were so simple! No, there is something wrong with our educational philosophy, and that in turn, reflects something disjointed at the center of our culture. Maybe as a nation we are still too young (an unbroken chain of our bests writers from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin had to repair to the "Old World" to survive...
...ponytail may be a style for all seasons, but new coiffures are coming up on the outside. Among them: a Hell's Angel look and what Supercuts haircutting chain calls "gangster chic." The first, a greasy down-and-dirty tousle once displayed by actor Mickey Rourke, can be achieved by gel overload or shampoo avoidance. For the gangster look, men can turn for inspiration to the oily Mafia sleekness seen in GoodFellas and the forthcoming Godfather III; actor Andy Garcia is its patron saint...
...housewares chain has found a novel way to prod consumers to snap up East German-produced King Wenceslas tree ornaments: "The democratization of Eastern Europe will almost certainly drive the cost of these ornaments beyond what we believe they should cost...