Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...help stir warm Christmas sentiments and loosen those purse strings, stores are emphasizing family ties this year. Montgomery Ward has donated $2 million worth of VCRs and videocams to the U.S.O. for American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf. Families of servicemen and -women are invited to go into the chain's stores and videotape holiday messages for them. The J.C. Penney's in East Brunswick, N.J., is kindling the holiday spirit with a giveaway. Customers can get a $10 discount on new coats by turning in any old coat; the used garments are then donated to the needy...
Gorbachev hopes he can cure the food crisis with a combination of strong presidential leadership and help from abroad. He privately approached Western leaders at last week's Paris summit conference with a grocery list that included such staples as pork, butter and powdered milk. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev two weeks to prepare emergency measures to ensure that the state receives ample supplies of food from producers. Meanwhile, grumbling consumers have no choice but to continue playing the grim new national sport: scavenger hunting...
Overall, the sales cast further doubt on auction-house techniques. Sotheby's all but ceased lending money to buyers after it was so badly burned by Alan Bond's default on Van Gogh's Irises, bought but not paid for in 1987 for $53.9 million with the help of a $27 million loan from the auction house. But this fall's victim has been the equally controversial system of guarantees, a product of the fierce competition between Sotheby's and Christie's, whereby the auction house contracts to pay the seller a given price for artworks -- whatever the outcome...
...providing treatment for addicts. His special drug and crime policy office was slow to fund programs. Promising experiments like Miami's 17-month-old drug court, which has had success in keeping first-time drug offenders out of further trouble by forcing them to accept treatment, got no financial help from the state. Even the Governor's office finds it hard to point to progress in Florida's effort to curb drug...
...bemoans the fare on television yet is a fan of thirtysomething. He pays half of staffers' bus fares but drives to work himself. After a false start in architecture school, he started work as an ad director with East West Journal in Brookline, Mass. He left in 1974 to help start another alternative publication, New Age Journal. After a stint as a Manhattan literary agent, Utne returned to Minneapolis and started the Reader as a newsletter, which soon blossomed into a hefty 128-page digest...