But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

* Department head / Senior Manager: Senior management architect or non-registered graduate ; responsible for major department ( s ) or functions ; reports to a principal or partner.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.

As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.

These exams last up to three hours, and may cover any required or elective course offered by the major department.

Until recently, Radford University in Virginia used the title “ media studies ” for a department that taught practitioner-oriented major concentrations in journalism, advertising, broadcast production and Web design.

A drama major, Selland introduced Peckinpah to the theater department and he became interested in directing for the first time.

Farther east in the highly developed department of Maldonado lies the major resort of Punta del Este.

* UCSF has its own fully functional police department, which carries out policing duties for its two major campuses as well as all satellite sites within the city and in South San Francisco.

One of the major powers of the Prime Minister under the Westminster system is to decide when a fellow minister is accountable for the actions of a department.

The technology behind these methods have evolved, from panels at the fire department ( which could trigger and control green lights for certain major corridors ) to optical systems ( which the individual fire apparatus can be equipped with to communicate directly with receivers on the signal head ).

In certain markets, a Fox affiliate may outsource news programming to an NBC, ABC or CBS station in the market ( either due to insufficient funds for production of their own newscasts or the station being operated under a duopoly or some form of an operational agreement with a major network affiliate ); while this is less common in the 50 largest television markets, the largest station in regards to market size using this arrangement is WPGH-TV / Pittsburgh ( in the 23rd largest U. S. media market ), which has broadcast a 10 p. m. newscast that is produced by Cox Media-owned NBC affiliate WPXI since the 2006 shutdown of WPGH's in-house news department by owner Sinclair Broadcast Group after the company's News Central division folded.

Most major universities have an economics faculty, school or department, where academic degrees are awarded in economics.

In 1956, two shopping malls, Westland and the JCRS Center, were built along Colfax, introducing major department stores and groceries to the area.

Sometimes, VoIP systems may route emergency calls to a non-emergency phone line at the intended department ; in the United States, at least one major police department has strongly objected to this practice as potentially endangering the public.

As a result of this and other battles fought in the area the department is home to many military cemeteries and several major monuments commemorating the many soldiers from various countries who died on its battlefields.

The industrial tissue of the department of Ain is also a result of its metal processing ( cables, wire drawing, electrical wires ) and engineering industry ( automobile industry, France's most important site for truck production ) as shows the presence of several major companies in this sector ( Tréfileurope, Alcatel Cables, Renault Trucks ).

During the twentieth century the department with its traditional industries was adversely impacted by two major world wars and even in the second half of the century experienced relatively low growth, the overall population remaining remarkably stable at around 340, 000 through the second half of the twentieth century, although industrial and commercial developments in the conurbation surrounding Angoulême have added some 10, 000 to the overall population during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Calais (, traditionally ; ; ) is a town and major ferry port in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

Plantinga began his career as an instructor in the philosophy department at Yale in 1957, and then in 1958 he became a professor of philosophy at Wayne State University during its heyday as a major center for analytic philosophy.

The major tourist attraction of the department is the Parc Astérix, which opened in 1989.

The borough is immediately to the west of the City of Westminster, which is at the heart of modern London, and to the east of Hammersmith & Fulham, and itself contains a substantial number of city centre facilities such as major museums and universities ( in " Albertopolis "), department stores like Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest carnival, and several Embassies in its Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens districts.

* 1980s: Accompanying the spread of the personal computer in family homes (" Famikon "), local shops increasingly began to deal in video games, and major gaming chain stores appeared on the market.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

In addition to this direct employment, the government heavily subsidizes other major employers in other areas of the economy, including Great Greenland's sealskin purchases, Pilersuisoq's rural stores, and some of Air Greenland and Royal Arctic's regional routes.

More recently, the stores in major downtown locations have been transformed into boutiques.

The IKEA food concessions which operate in IKEA stores are still owned directly by the Kamprad family which provides a major part of the family's income.

GAME, a major computer game and hardware retailer also operate a cashback card scheme, which was merged with Electronics Boutique's programme following the separation of their northern European stores into the hands of GAME.

The Sex Pistols ' live TV skirmish with Bill Grundy was the signal moment in British punk's transformation into a major media phenomenon, even as some stores refused to stock the records and radio airplay was hard to come by.

Legal Video CDs can often be found in established video stores and major book outlets in most Asian countries.

The Kings Contrivance Village Center underwent major construction in 2007 and 2008 when a new Harris Teeter supermarket was added to the center, but maintained the original character of stores around a central corridor and plaza.

The hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce the glycoprotein glomalin, which may be one of the major stores of carbon in the soil.

Many trade companies established stores and offices in Omsk, resulting in the construction of the picturesque old district, and contributing to the rapid development of Omsk into a major city.

It has experienced significant growth in commerce, and many major retailers, such as Wal-Mart have opened stores in this city.

As one of the largest stores of its kind, this location is a major tourist destination and has greatly improved the economy of Dundee.

The county is a major commercial, educational, and manufacturing center of south Georgia with considerable forest products including pulpwood and naval stores, such as turpentine and rosin.

Dim sum can be purchased from major grocery stores in most countries with a Chinese population.

Some stores did open around the town square, however, and warehouses started to appear adjacent to the town's three major river landings, Upper Landing, above the modern Demopolis Yacht Basin and Marina, Webb's Landing at the western terminus of Washington Street, and Lower Landing to the west of Riverside Cemetery and the Whitfield Canal.

The first Redevelopment Agency project included a regional shopping center, the West Covina Fashion Plaza, with three major department stores and 150 shops in an air-conditioned, enclosed mall.

The major stores are Best Buy, Petsmart, Staples, La-Z-Boy, Denny's Diner, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl's, Sprouts and Costco Wholesale.

Sunrise Mall, newly remodeled with over 100 stores, including major department and specialty stores ( Macy's, Sears, JC Penney's, etc.

Citrus Heights also features major discount retail stores such as Costco, Sam's Club, and Wal-Mart.

Shaw's Supermarket was one of the top five major employers, but the Hamden Shaw's was sold to ShopRite in a sale of Shaw's Connecticut stores announced on February 13, 2010.