CEO Brent Hollister said that the move would allow Sears to refocus on its retail operations ; as the chain had been lately relied heavily on its financial services division.

According to vocalist Jason Sears in a 2002 interview with Thrasher magazine: “ it happened that some guy said, ' ha, those kids will never be anything, they're just a bunch of rich kids on LSD, man.

Sears said :"... so we hooked up with Barry to cover for him.

Sears said that they were pleased with the group of seven players who committed to Cricket Kenya, while equally disappointed with those who refused contracts.

Sears said of this debacle ," It's a shame that yet again some of these players have turned down their contracts but that is their choice.

Sears is said to have written these words at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts.

The 1902 Sears catalog called the Deweylin Harp, an unrelated fretless zither that was available before the Marxophone, "... the wonder of the age " and "... the greatest musical instrument that has ever been placed before the public.

) Major retailers Best Buy and Sears offer loyalty programs that offer points redeemable for dollar-amount discounts after accumulating a set number of points along with other discounts from time to time.

Atari contacted the Sears Sporting Goods department after noticing a Magnavox Odyssey advertisement in the sporting goods section of its catalog.

It is named after Julius Rosenwald, Chicago ( 1862-1932 ), President of Sears and Roebuck.

) Shortly after Wal-Mart opened, Sears moved across U. S. Route 224 from Wal-Mart while Lowe's, Hills, and Peebles all opened up locations in the area.

The United States Postal Service, in fact, currently uses the former Sears Auto Center building as a service garage for its mail trucks, while the Post Office itself has a branch inside the main portion of the mall, which it moved into after the loss of its two anchors.

Other artists signed to the label would include Rhett Akins, Gary Allan, Mark Chesnutt, and Lee Ann Womack ; of these, all but Sears would be shifted to the MCA Nashville roster after parent Universal Music absorbed PolyGram in 1998 and shut down Decca Nashville.

The line-up also included late-Airplane holdovers drummer John Barbata and fiddler Papa John Creach ( who also played with Hot Tuna ), Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter, who, after the group's 1974 spring tour, was replaced by Pete Sears ( who, like Freiberg, played bass and keyboards ) and twenty-year-old guitarist Craig Chaquico.

* American champion Richard D. Sears retires from the sport after winning the US singles title for the seventh successive time, a record that still stands

In June 2011 Calvin McDonald became CEO and President of Sears Canada Inc. after an 18 year career with Loblaws.

Just 10 months after he bought his first bass, Harris joined a band, initially known as Influence and later Gypsy's Kiss, featuring Bob Verscoyle ( lead vocals ), Dave Smith ( guitar ) and drummer Paul Sears.

The venue was then changed to the Sears Point Raceway, but after a dispute with Sears Point's owner, Filmways, Inc., over film distribution rights, the festival was moved to the Altamont Raceway at the suggestion of its then-owner, local businessman Dick Carter.

Sears did not register the Supertone brand name, and after Sears discontinued marketing the records, Straus & Schram used the name.

Police eventually concluded that Adam was abducted by a drifter named Ottis Toole near the front exterior of the Sears store that afternoon, after being asked to leave by a store clerk.

Sears went on to play in The Marshes and later after moving to Portland, Oregon for Handgun Bravado and The Valley Floor.

Goodwin later stated he made the climb as a gift to a young Dallas boy stricken with cystic fibrosis whom he had met shortly after his May 25, 1981, ascent of Chicago's Sears Tower.

* Rob Shoebridge – Warnock heavily criticised Rob Shoebridge and his officials after another disputed incident at Ashton Gate, when Freddie Sears gave Palace what they thought was an early lead.

The highway meets US 10 near Sears after crossing the Pere Marquette State Trail.

However, Julius Rosenwald, wealthy co-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago, soon after became Reshevsky's benefactor ; Rosenwald guaranteed Reshevsky's future on condition that he would complete his education.

The city is modeled after Chicago, including many of its landmarks, such as The ' L ', Willis Tower ( Then known as Sears Tower ), Wrigley Field, and Soldier Field.

When topped out in 2009, it became the second-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, after another Chicago building, the Willis Tower ( formerly known as the Sears Tower ).

As an adult he was a concert violinist in Chicago before he gave up music to become a vice president at Sears Roebuck & Co. after marrying into the family that controlled the company.

Specifically in return, Sears Roebuck became " one of the largest shareholders " after obtaining a 40 % stake in Advance Auto Parts, and by merging their two store networks, which included Western Auto's wholesale and retail operations.

He won 5 races in 1995, including his first road course victory at Sears Point.

Sears, Roebuck & Co. first marketed their Sears Catalog Homes to the general public in 1908.

The first units manufactured were branded with Sears ' " Tele-Games " name.

Sears and the City of Chicago approved the design, and the first steel was put in place in April 1971.

Prodigy used online advertising first to promote Sears products in the 1980s, and then other advertisers, including AOL, one of Prodigy's direct competitors.

The first edition was won by Richard Sears who went on to win seven consecutive singles titles.

The site of Plainview's first sod house is on city land ; the city also has two Sears Catalog homes.

It was the first modern enclosed mall in north-central Ohio, and was originally anchored by the prestigious Lazarus Department Store ( based in Columbus ), the O ' Neil's Department Store ( based in Akron ), and by Sears.

The Cascade Galleria, a more conventional mall located within the city near downtown, once home to Sears and G. C. Murphy, faced market competition in the mid-1990s when Wal-Mart opened its first supercenter in Pennsylvania in 1995 in Union Township west of the city.

Sears chose the city as its first Sears Grand location, a new store concept, which opened its doors in 2003 at the Jordan Landing shopping center.

Decca's country music branch was revived in 1994, with Dawn Sears being the first act signed to the newly-reformed label.

It was on the Manhole album that Kantner and Slick next worked with Pete Sears ( who had first played on Papa John Creach's first solo album ), who was co-producing a Kathi McDonald album in the same studio.

Sears had worked on three of Rod Stewart's early British recordings, and had to go back to England to play on Smiler, Stewart's last album made in London, so Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter Kaukonen first played with the band early in 1974 before Sears returned to the States and replaced him in Jefferson Starship in June 1974.

After trying to play the drums and saxophone, Vaughan received his first guitar for his seventh birthday: a plastic toy from Sears with a western motif.

In 1976, Simpsons-Sears inaugurated a Sears store at Galeries d ' Anjou, its first location in a mall with a Simpsons store.

For the first time in its history, Sears Canada held the leases to a number of prime downtown locations in Toronto ( Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Mall ), Vancouver ( Pacific Centre ), Victoria, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Calgary ( all former Eaton's stores ).

Their computers were among the first IBM PC compatibles sold in retail chains such as Sears.

The term palynology was introduced by Hyde and Williams in 1944, following correspondence with the Swedish geologist Antevs, in the pages of the Pollen Analysis Circular ( one of the first journals devoted to pollen analysis, produced by Paul Sears in North America ).

August 1929 saw the first Sears into Houston.

For the first time in its history, Sears held the leases to a number of prime locations in Toronto ( Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Mall ), Vancouver ( Pacific Centre ), Victoria, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Calgary ( all former Eaton's stores ).