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...Sept. 17 Manhattan conference on the retail industry with Smith Barney as host. Dozens of top Wall Street analysts and institutional investors were assembled to hear reports from the leading companies. Many of the experts suspected that the news was not good. But the Wal-Mart Stores discount chain announced that sales were up sharply in September. The chairman of Toys "R" Us declared that though this was a slow period, he was excited about the Christmas season. True to Gap tradition, Chairman Fisher refused to reveal any projections for third-quarter earnings. In the past, though, company officials...
...spokesmen are counting on Jonathan Myers, a North Cambridge social worker, to win a fifth seat for the organization in a three-way neighborhood rivalry with Cyr and Danehy. Independents discount Myers' chances, saying that his unusually dogged campaigning cannot compete with the ties of family and friends that both Cyr and Danehy boast...
...spokesmen are counting on Jonathan Myers, a North Cambridge social worker, to win a fifth seat for the organization in a three-way neighborhood rivalry with Cyr and Danehy. Independents discount Myers' chances, saying that his unusually dogged campaigning cannot compete with the ties of family and friends that both Cyr and Danehy boast...
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Take Carla Smith, 25, a welfare mother who lives with three of her four children in Passyunk Homes, a public housing project in South Philadelphia. She and her children rarely leave the four-block project except to walk to the nearby grocery and discount-clothing stores. "I'm young, but I might as well not be," says Smith. "I don't do nothing. I don't go nowhere. My partying days are over. I just stay here with my kids all day long...