In the early 1990s, as chairman and CEO of Sears, Brennan oversaw the dismantling of the financial empire through spinoffs and sales, generating large returns for investors. He also recruited his eventual successor, Saks Fifth Avenue executive ...
He was deemed to be an offensive genius when he got to the Ravens, but the team became known for its staunch defense and never had an attack that was remotely as productive as that of the Vikings in the late 1990s. "I'm not saying I agree with it ...
Court TV, R.I.P. The network that burst into public consciousness with the O.J. Simpson trial and other big-name courtroom dramas in the 1990s becomes part of television history Tuesday, renamed truTV to emphasize its prime-time action programming ...
Kosten took up the idea in the mid-1990s, figuring cocaine was a better candidate because the enzyme for breaking it down is in the bloodstream, not the liver, like most drugs. While they were at Yale, he led the clinical trials and his wife ...
According to an index tracked by Comerica Bank, cars have gotten steadily more affordable -- as compared to median family income -- since the late 1990s. With less expensive money at hand for more affordable cars, the temptation to keep buying became ...
During a fight over prayer in school in his home district in the late 1990s, Mr. Wicker spoke out forcefully at a rally for the religion-infused practices of the local schools, sharply criticizing the contrary positions of the American Civil ...
Unlike immigrants coming from, say, Mexico, or even the refugees that came from Bosnia in the 1990s, this new crop of transplants has little familiarity with Western culture. Many of them have spent their entire lives in refugee camps, with little ...
These Cowboys seem to feel more a kinship with the champion Cowboys of the early 1990s than they do the Cowboys of recent vintage, who have not won a playoff game since the 1996 season. There's nothing that should dissuade the Redskins between now ...
It has been an experience that I have enjoyed immensely,'' Levy, who as a coach led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances during the 1990s, said in a statement released by the team. ''[Coach] Dick Jauron , his staff and an admirable ...
Although he worked for the BBC for much of the 1990s and the early years of this decade, he never quite seemed to make a slot his own, being frequently used as a stand-in for other presenters. The suspicion must be not so much that he never found his ...