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	Sears Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sears executives decided early on that the space they would immediately occupy should be as efficiently designed to house the small army that was their Merchandise Group.
		Sears and the City of Chicago approved the design, and the first steel was put in place in April 1971.
		Sears Tower was unseated for having the highest roof of any building in the world and the highest habitable floor in the world by Taipei 101 in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sears_Tower (1110 words)

	Sears Holdings Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Sears was a railroad station agent in Minnesota when he received a shipment of watches which were unwanted by a local jeweler.
		Richard Sears knew that farmers often brought their crops to town where they could be sold and shipped, and then bought supplies, often at very high prices, from local general stores.
		Sears diversified and became a conglomerate during the mid-20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sears (2920 words)

	What is a Sears Modern Home?
		Sears was instead a very able follower of popular home designs but with the added advantage of modifying houses and hardware according to buyer tastes.
		Sears homes took advantage of the new homebuilding material of drywall by shipping large quantities of this inexpensively manufactured product with the rest of the housing materials.
		Sears Modern Homes program stayed abreast of any technology that could ease the lives of its homebuyers and gave them the option to design their homes with modern convenience in mind.
	www.searsarchives.com /homes (850 words)

	The Arts & Crafts Movement - Companies: Sears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sears Roebuck mass-merchandising, mail-order company was founded in 1886 and quickly became one of the largest such operations in the world.
		Sears is often credited with inventing the mail-order kit house but that distinction goes to the Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan who began the practice in 1906.
		Sears was likely the leader in total sales and in visibility purporting to have sold over 100,000 homes in the 1908 to 1940 period.
	www.arts-crafts.com /archive/sears.shtml (517 words)

	Sears Newsroom - Sears Military Support Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sears’ pay differential was first instituted in 1990 for Operation Desert Shield-Storm.
		Sears and NMFA published the keepsake book to celebrate the importance of military families and raise awareness of their contributions to the strength of the U.S. military force.
		Partnership was officially extended beyond SLS to all Sears units in October 2004.
	www.searsmedia.com /aboutsears/military.htm (670 words)

	Sears Archives Home Page
		Sears has a rich, long history to tell dating back to 1886 when Richard Sears sold the first batch of watches.
		However, we've boiled Sears history down to a short narrative and event timeline for you: Sears narrative history tells the story of the founding of Sears and the Sears chronology is an up-to-date primer of Sears milestones and events.
		Richard Warren Sears was born December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minn., to James Warren and Eliza Sears.
	www.searsarchives.com (136 words)

	Sears
		Sears is expected to shortly announce plans to break up its shoe retailing business, including the loss-making Shoe Express chain, which could result in an exceptional charge of up to £200m.
		Sears has reached agreement to sell the Freemans mail order business to Littlewoods for £367m, and also plans to demerge the Selfridges department store next year as part of a restructuring aimed at stemming the losses in its £465m footwear business.
		Sears is planning to open at least one new Selfridges store in the north of England, and eventually plans to have a chain of department stores across the country.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /searsaaa.htm (836 words)

	Edmund Hamilton Sears
		Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876), a Unitarian parish minister and author, was understood in his day to be conservative and not in sympathy with either "broad church" or "radical" Unitarians.
		To Sears Jesus was neither a primarily historical figure, "disappeared into the distant past," nor a subject for "theological pugilism," but an experience in daily life.
		Sears," she wrote, "though I cannot quite agree with all his conclusions." He had not the temperament of a reformer, but as she observed, "He had no reluctance to incur obloquy in vindication of the right." Sears preached the equality of women and men.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/edmundhamiltonsears.html (1605 words)

	Sears
		Thomas Sears and Elizabeth Henry Sears and Elizabeth John Joseph Sears and Elizabeth Kerby Chesly Sears and Elizabeth C. McClanahan Malinda Margrett Sears and Scott Cyrus Freeman Lucy Jane Freeman and James Martin Lawson Donald VanHoosier Lawson and Iva Melvina Freeman Stephen Martin Lawson
		Sears attended them as much and as regularly as he could, and made the most of the advantages they fave him.
		Sears ws united in marriage with Miss Catherine Riley, a native of Macon county (who departed this life September 7, 1908), but a daughter of parents who came to this state from Kentucky, where their forefathers helped to redeem the wilds and lay the faoundation of civilized and cultivated life.
	kinnexions.com /smlawson/sears.htm (2951 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Sears)
		Sears pays the difference in salaries and maintains benefits for their called-up military reservist employees.
		Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years.
		Sears is indeed one of the employers who take additional steps to show support for employees involved in serving their country by guaranteeing the continuance of their civilian pay (for up to 24 months) and health benefits (indefinitely).
	www.snopes.com /politics/military/sears.asp (531 words)

	case study on Sears for Stanfor L.R.
		It was in the context of these rules, then, as well as Sears' poor performance, that in May of 1991, I engaged in a proxy contest for one seat on the board of a public company.
		Sears had a number of corporate governance provisions that were suitable for shareholder activism.
		Sears management refused to allow the largest group of shareholders, Sears' own employees, to have information about the alternative candidacy I was offering.
	www.lens-library.com /info/sstan.html (8212 words)

	Sears, Roebuck and Co.
		Sears, Roebuck and Co. has been a dominate force in the retail industry for many years, actually over a century, and has continually shown a dominance in the way that their business is run.
		Gladly, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was able to prevail and once again is starting to show dominance in the retail industry, founded now to be number two in the retail industry.
		Sears hired Roebuck and in 1893 the corporate name of the firm became Sears, Roebuck and Co. Business turned out to be very profitable for the company and in the 1890's the mail order industry for Sears, Roebuck and Co.
	academic.emporia.edu /smithwil/00spmg456/eja/pieschl.html (1601 words)

	Sears turns to big-box stores for help in boosting sales - Jul. 9, 2003
		Sears' sales at stores open at least a year -- a key retail measure known as same-store sales -- have declined for 21 consecutive months.
		Sears stores typically anchor regional malls, but U.S. consumers aren't shopping like they used to, and visits to the nearby department store or mall are fewer and further between, industry experts said.
		Sears isn't disclosing the cost but said that it expects to open five stores as part of its pilot program by 2005.
	money.cnn.com /2003/07/08/news/companies/sears__food (814 words)

	Sears - Investor Relations - News Release
		Sears Holdings will be the nation's third largest retailer, with approximately $55 billion in annual revenues, 2,350 full-line and off-mall stores, and 1,100 specialty retail stores.
		Sears Holdings will act as the holding company for the Sears and Kmart businesses, which will continue to operate separately under their respective brand names.
		The respective directors and executive officers of Kmart and Sears and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transaction.
	phx.corporate-ir.net /phoenix.zhtml?c=63737&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=644973&highlight= (1770 words)

	Sears Catalog
		Founders Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck began producing a catalog-type mailing of their wares in 1888 which offered mainly watches, jewelry and silverware, and later catalogs were introduced periodically.
		Sears would release a new catalog when he felt that he had enough merchandise to sell, or when the economy dictated that prices needed to be changed.
		Sears had the ability to identify new products that the market would embrace en masse, as well as an uncanny capacity to know when to change a product or drop it.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/sears/sears4.html (859 words)

	BUILDING BIG: Databank: Sears Tower
		The Sears Tower is actually a bundle of nine tubes, and is considered one of the most efficient structures designed to withstand wind.
		Today, the Sears Tower still boasts the tallest occupiable floor and the tallest skyscraper roof in the world.
		The Sears Tower contains enough concrete to build an eight-lane, five-mile-long highway, enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles, and enough telephone wiring to wrap around the world 1.75 times.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/sears_tower.html (303 words)

	SEARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sears, the #2 US retailer (after Wal-Mart), is taking on challengers on all sides -- not just its softer one.
		In this interview, Sears' CEO discusses how the Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based company is dealing with debt problems and other trends in the retail industry.
		Sears Roebuck terminated its big catalog in the U.S. several years ago, but the book is still going strong in Canada -- it is currently the largest mail-order catalog in the country.
	distance.una.edu /~kabsher/newpage31.htm (1301 words)

	Sears and Fine Art
		Sears set out to end this isolation by merchandising art throughout the country, in a presentation from which pictures could be readily purchased to enrich American homes.
		Sears customers could also purchase items on an installment plan for as little as $5 down and $5 a month.
		In 1966, the Sears Vincent Price Gallery of Fine Art was opened in Chicago, Ill., providing a mass audience for talented, but less well-known, young artists.
	www.searsarchives.com /history/art (445 words)

	The Lawsuit
		Sears Roebuck and Co., Court File No. 02-00045/MLC, filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on January 2, 2002, by current and former product repair service technicians employed by Sears.
		This lawsuit specifically challenges Sears' "Home Dispatch Program." Sears is one of the country’s leading retailers of apparel, home and automotive products and services, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion.
		This website is designed to provide potential collective members and other interested parties with information about the lawsuit and its progress, as well as a means to assist plaintiffs’ counsel in prosecuting the lawsuit on their behalf.
	www.searstechlawsuit.com (368 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sears worked much professionally, given that she is the primary caregiver for 8 children.
		Sears' book contains valuable discussions of contemporary parenting issues that cannot be found in other standard parenting books, including a comprehensive discussion of breastfeeding techinques and chapters on "baby-wearing" (using a sling) and on "nighttime parenting," including sharing a bed with your baby.
		Third, Dr. Sears' tone is so didactic that the parent who chooses not to follow his advice runs the risk of feeling guilty.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316779059?v=glance (1865 words)

	Sears Intro
		As a result, Sears became one of the most trusted economic institutions in U.S. history and eventually grew to be the seventh largest corporation in the world during the twentieth century.
		During the 1890s, Sears was in the infancy stages of developing its business methodology and becoming a contender in the newly conceived mail order merchandising industry.
		However, young Sears became the beneficiary of one of the most common schemes of the day, and used the profits to build an empire.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/sears/sears.html (533 words)

	Sears Modern Homes Part 1: Building by the book, the history of the Sears catalog houses
		Here are excerpts of her new book, "The Houses That Sears Built: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sears Catalogue Homes," published in 2002 by Gentle Beam Publications, P. Box 1392, Alton, IL 62002.
		In addition to the 44 houses, Sears offered plans and building materials for a "modern" schoolhouse, which the company claimed could be built for $11,500.
		Sears estimated in 1908 that a carpenter would charge $450.00 to assemble Modern Home #111, The Chelsea.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/10423.shtml (881 words)

	Zone Diet - Barry Sears - Zone Diet Bars - Zone Diet Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sears began the research that led to the development of the Zone Diet for a very selfish reason -- he wanted to do what he could to support his heart.
		As Dr. Sears explains, the fish oil doled out by our grandmothers and currently sold at health-food stores has never been pure enough to be used in the quantities it takes to feel its potential benefits.
		With his solid research, practical advice, and infectious enthusiasm, Dr. Sears continues the evolution of his Zone technology that will enable everyone to reach his or her maximum genetic potential for optimal health and vitality for life.
	www.zonedietplan.com (669 words)

	Sears Employment Opportunities at AUTOjobs.com
		In addition, Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a majority owner of Sears Canada and holds a minority interest in Sears Mexico.
		Sears is a leading broadline retailer providing merchandise and related services.
		Sears is the only retailer where consumers can find each of the Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard and Lands' End brands together – among the most trusted and preferred brands in the U.S. Sears’ Kenmore brand is the leading appliance brand in America.
	sears.autojobs.com (180 words)

	Sears Tower: 110 Storeys of the Big Store
		Of course, Sears itself has since moved to a more human-scale suburban setting leaving the tower partly vacant on several occasions due to a downtown real estate depression.
		Today, however, downtown property markets are thriving; likewise Sears Tower has (again) become one of Chicago's most prestigious buildings, recently acquired from AEW Capital Management by TrizecHahn, a REIT (real estate investment trust) firm.
		To meet the growing demands of the digital age, Sears Tower was upgraded March 8 of 2000 with four combination antennas, each 29.4ft, 2890lb mounted on 80ft towers at the four corners of the roof.
	www.searstower.org /home.html (346 words)

	Sears Holdings Corporation
		I know all of our Sears Holdings’ associates join me in wishing the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and their loved ones as rapid a recovery as is possible from the incredibly devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.
		Sears Holdings Corporation, the publicly traded (NASDAQ: SHLD) parent of Kmart and Sears, Roebuck and Co., is the nation's third largest broadline retailer, with approximately $55 billion in annual revenues, and with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada.
		Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer in North America and is a retail sales leader in tools, lawn and garden, home electronics, and automotive repair and maintenance.
	www.searsholdings.com (355 words)

	Sears Parts - Appliance Parts & Repair
		If you are searching for the right Sears Parts for your appliance, we can help you quickly find exactly what you are looking for.
		If you are looking for Sears accessories for your Sears appliance, we can help you find accessories for refrigerators, air conditioners, dryers, and virtually any other type of Sears appliance.
		Sears parts may not be all that you are looking for.
	www.appliancepartsresource.com /sears-parts.htm (457 words)

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