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Kmart head holds out great hopes for future after Sears purchase announcement.

Byline: Joe Lauria

Nov. 21--In the mid-1980s, an executive for Sears, Roebuck & Co. could live in a luxury apartment above the clouds on a top floor of the then tallest building in the world, the Sears Tower in Chicago.

He could have bought the flat with help from the Sears Mortgage Banking Group; furnished it with kitchen appliances, a dining, bedroom and living room set from a Sears retail outlet and filled his closets with clothes and his wife's jewellery box with trinkets from the Sears catalogue.

Our Sears Man would have taken the lift every

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