Coke Logo Fashion Fades Amid Shifting Consumer Taste
Coke clothes once sparked a national craze with logo driven gear from T shirts to jeans. Sales cooled after strong early demand as retailers note limited appeal for the logo among younger career shoppers while Iowa stores vary in success. Corporations eye rivals and fall launches from Pepsi Hershey and General Mills expand logo driven apparel into kids and young women markets.
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Izod
Gloria Vanderbilt
Ralph Lauren
Coca-Cola
Diane Rhode
Armstrong’s Department Store
New York
Macy’s Department Store
Rhode
Macy’s
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Petersen Harned von Mauer
Better Sportswear
Kellie Lala
Lala
Armstrong’s
Ann Kibler
Younker’s
Armstrong
Pepsi
Armstrong's
Hershey
General Mills
Growing Up Spoiled in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills author Patsy Klein describes her memoir as an insider guide to a life of conspicuous consumption. The book covers plastic surgery trends dining real estate and divorce while keeping most names out and focusing on light reflections from Rodeo Drive to the pool area of her family home.
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Jeannine Stein
Los Angeles Times
Beverly Hills
Calif
Patsy Klein
Klein
Klein Department Stores
Newsweek
Los Angeles
Sister
Kay
Lyle Stuart
Stuart
Rodeo Drive
Saks
I. Magnin
End of the line for cabooses sparks union push
Railroads push to phase out cabooses citing costs and new tech while union advocates cite safety. Since 1982 more than 2,000 cabooses have been retired with three states Virginia Oregon and Montana enacting mandatory caboose laws.
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Harrisburg
Rutherford
United Transportation Union
United States
Association of American Railroads
Dan Cupper
Caboose
Transportation Union
Railroads
Lloyd Lewis
CSX Corp
Conrail
E.W. Croyle
Virginia
Montana
Oregon
Nebraska
Texas
TV evangelists face funding squeeze amid competition
After three decades on air Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson cut staff and trim budgets by 34 million as revenues miss estimates. Oral Roberts closes dental school delays 14 million center. City of Faith Hospital sits largely empty. Experts cite fewer large gifts and rising superchurches shrinking the fundraising pie.
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Ynchburg
Jerry
Falwell
Pat Robertson
Moral Majority
Robertson
Oral Roberts
City of Faith
Tulsa
Peter S. Hawkins
Yale Divinity School
Hawkins
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Phoenix
Houston
Orlando
Fla
Rob Nordin
Nordin
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Coke
Anne Marty
Jerry Falwell
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