Teens turn to catalogs for back-to-school fashion
In a shift from malls, teens like 15-year-old Susan Rosenbaum shop through catalogs from Nordstrom Lands End and Wet Seal offering hip, urban looks. Delta’s and Delia’s fuel a booming teen catalog market drawing nationwide interest and sales far above early 1990s levels.
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New York
Susan Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum
Chicago
Nordstrom
Lands’ End
Wet Seal
James Palczynski
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc
Hanson
Yale
Delta’s
MTV
Seventeen Magazine
Stephen Kahn
Delia’s
Delia
Arlington Heights
Whitaker named first U S trade envoy for Africa
Rosa Whitaker, 38, becomes assistant United States Trade Representative for Africa, the first regional envoy in a role coordinating interagency U S Africa trade policy and investment. Her resume shows deep private sector, diplomatic, and nonprofit ties, with a key presidential mission she organized aiding President Clinton’s Africa visit.
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Washington
Africa
Rosa Whitaker
United States
Whitaker
U.s.-Africa
Ron Brown
Clinton
Charles Rangel
D-N.y
Washon
Rangel
U.S
Risk returns to market and reshapes American finances
Risk reappears after a six week stock slide eroding $2 trillion in value and $8 billion Russian losses. George Soros loses $2 billion as confidence sinks. The wealth effect fades, reducing discretionary spending and borrowing, while executives cut options and households slow purchases. Mutual funds hold nearly 40 percent of U.S. households, assets top $5 trillion at market peak.
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New York
America
George Soros
Michael Lament
Wright Investors’ Service
U.S
Xerox teaches diversity with family kit in Stamford
Xerox manager Julie Baskin Brooks created a parental guide to raise children in a diverse world after a knife threat to her son Kameron at age seven. The free kit, offered since June, has drawn more than 1,500 employee requests and includes a parent primer, color paper to illustrate skin tones, and activities such as making people towels with dough to model different shapes and colors.
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Stamford, Conn
Julie Baskin Brooks
Kameron
Brooks
Xerox
Ing
Kameron Brooks
Xerox Corp
Stamford
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