CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 25, 1995 | VIVIEN LOU CHEN
An employee of a Sears store in Burbank has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling $17,000 by using a cash register to pay off his credit-card debts over the past two years, police said Wednesday. Police believe Afshin (Jeff) Masjedi, 28, of Pasadena credited his Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Discover accounts while he worked in the store's hardware and appliance departments and no one was looking.
BUSINESS
August 31, 1989 | From Times wire services
The nation's biggest retailers today issued mixed sales reports for August, with department and apparel stores benefiting from back-to-school business but mass merchandisers suffering through another month of lackluster results. Industry analysts said consumers continued to spend carefully. "These are not boom times, and we see a cautious consumer," said Walter Loeb, an analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. "I believe we are heading for a slow-growth period."
NEWS
December 4, 1998 | BOOTH MOORE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
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BUSINESS
June 25, 1990 | CARLA LAZZARESCHI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When the personal computer first hit the market a little more than a decade ago, the sages of the day proclaimed that the machine was destined to find a home in every home. Then reality set in. Consumers quickly discovered that it almost took a Ph.D. in electrical engineering to assemble the system and another advanced degree in computer programming to understand the user's manual.