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Other department stores may try to win back recession-scarred consumers with glamorized décor, personalized service and accordion-like credit arrangements. But K mart Corp, knows that the way to the shopper's heart is still through the pocketbook. Most of the 1,750 stores around the country that show off the company's big red K are riding out the recession relatively well, and the discount chain may displace Sears, Roebuck and Co. as the U.S.'s leading retailer...
...Austin lawyer who handles divorces. His solution: three 30-min. video tapes in which Partner Eric Galton, 28, answers divorce questions posed by an actor portraying a client. The tapes not only cut down on emotional wear and tear but reduce damage to a client's pocketbook. Since Hancock needs to devote less time to the case, the average uncontested divorce costs $250, instead of $350. Critics fear a loss of the human touch, but with their clients' encouragement, the partners have begun planning sequels on real estate and probate...
...showed that the Republican nominee is outrunning Carter in the pocketbook as well as in the polls. While the President earned $275,136 and paid $64,944 in federal taxes last year, the G.O.P. candidate, who listed his occupation as "private business," reported a taxable income of $515,878 and federal taxes of $230,886. His net worth is estimated to be more than $3 million; Carter...
Patrick Dawaere plays the reluctant hero of this comedy of rape and revenge. He is a marvelously simple and impulsive actor, last seen here in the overrated Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, where he played the lover with the pocketbook library. In his latest film, he scratches his grizzly chin and narrows his tired eyes with the charm of a runty mutt who must scrounge to survive on a diet of crabgrass and crusty bread. Dawaere's puppylike affability extends to his awkwardly rolling gait, which takes him down highways, through bathroom windows and across manicured gardens on a quest...
...special brand of journalism should rise like margin calls in a bear market. All newspapers like to think they are in touch with the needs and feelings of their readers. The Wall Street Journal can go one step further. Says Kerby: "We're always touching the pocketbook nerve, which is the most sensitive nerve...