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...A friendship sprang up with the Prince of Wales, now King Charles....
...gets his kind-hearted employer arrested for (unwittingly) selling moonshine-laced syrup during prohibition and one touching song has the impoverished locals dreaming about what they might buy from the Sears...
...My tuna is tender with a fine limbal ring of sear. We begin talking about Irish poets and writers, the way the country’s oral tradition seeps into its literature....
...It all started with Sears. At the end of the 19th century, Chicago-based Sears, Roebuck & Co’s catalogue was a monster, a doorstop manifesto of capitalism geared to homesteaders and smallholders....
...In November, rival TD Ameritrade was snapped up by Charles Schwab. In the hands of Morgan Stanley, ETrade looks more compelling. The brokerage has more than 5m retail clients....
...Both mass-market Sears and luxury Barneys New York have been through bankruptcy proceedings in the past year....
...When sizing up the big beasts of the French business elite, there are few who dispute that Jean-Charles Naouri is the smartest of the lot....
...Every coloratura phrase is pitched to sear the soul....
...Should creative types at agencies dreaming of becoming the next Charles Saatchi pick a different career?...
...Figures who are more widely known as political donors, such as Charles and David Koch, also fund philanthropic operations that dovetail with their beliefs....
...Between 1945 and 1966, renowned architects including Charles Eames were asked to think of new ways to build economically efficient housing....
...Even Charles Saatchi has not demanded that yet. Gold Bug & Son Keeping jobs in the family is seen as laudable in private businesses, but questionable in the publicly-quoted kind....
...So when I came across Charles Carter’s recipe for lemon salad, in The Complete Practical Cook (1730), I was instantly drawn to it....
...In an administrative proceeding, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged optionsXpress, which is now owned by Charles Schwab, four executives and customer Jonathan Feldman, a top executive with Eastern...
...The radical advances of the 19th century, pioneered by the likes of Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur and Jean-Marie Charcot, nurtured a generation for whom nothing was certain any more....
...RAB Capital fell 6.1 per cent to 11½p after announcing that losses had almost trebled, a performance its chief executive Charles Kirwan-Taylor described as “unsatisfactory”....
...It is the name of his childhood sledge, ultimately thrown to the flames as oblivion sears the movie’s final scenes....
...In spite of deals in the sector, the S&P 500 consumer discretionary index fell 0.6 per cent with department store Sears losing 3.5 per cent to $72.50 and News Corp falling 2.9 per cent to $13.59....
...It sponsored the rise of American retail through Sears and Roebuck, Woolworths and Macy’s of New York. In Hollywood, it was the money behind films such as Gone with the Wind....
...Sears, the largest US department store chain, jumped 10.4 per cent to $55.40 after reporting a surprise profit and far exceeding analysts’ expectations....
...Another paradox is that Masdar is (despite being designed by the global modernist architects of our age) in many ways a city Prince Charles could approve of....
...It’s possible, after all, that the baby boomers will hang on to power, keeping Gen X in a Prince Charles-like holding pattern. And then there are the people nipping at Gen X’s heels....
...He and his new friends, Don Danly and Charlie Tron, took to hanging out at the new Sears store....
...Excerpt from The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works – and How It’s Transforming the American Economy, by Charles Fishman (Penguin Press/Houghton Mifflin) © Charles Fishman...
...In the town square, they stacked a bonfire with mail-order catalogues, in protest at the pernicious influence of the new giants of American retail, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward....
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