ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAY Treasury holds T-bill auction. ALSO TUESDAY: Labor Department reports on first-quarter productivity. Treasury bill auction. Travel Industry Association of America releases results of 1999 Summer Travelometer, national summer travel forecast. WEDNESDAY: National Association of Realtors The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is made up of residential and commercial realtors who are brokers, salespeople, property managers, appraisers, and counselors, and others working in the real estate industry. reports on first-quarter home prices by metropolitan area. THURSDAY: Labor Department reports on weekly jobless claims, producer prices for April. Commerce Department reports on retail sales for April. Freddie Mac reports on weekly mortgage rates. BIZ BYTES POWERFUL SCENT: Want a fragrance that will leave the ladies in a figure-four? A perfume that will hit 'em like a pile-driver? Here's a tag-team for you: Perfumania Inc. and World Championship Wrestling For the Australian professional wrestling promotion, see World Championship Wrestling (Australia). For the poet, see William Carlos Williams. World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. announced late last month that they would join forces to manufacture and market an upscale line of fragrances. The new line will be cross-marketed to the WCW's television audience of 35 million, and in Miami-based Perfumania's 288 stores nationwide. The fragrances should be available for sale via Perfumania's Internet store in November. ``Our champions like Bill Goldberg and Kevin Nash are really pumped about promoting a WCW WCW World Championship Wrestling WCW Wellesley Centers for Women WCW West Coast Watchers branded fragrance,'' said Casey Collins, director of WCW, a Time-Warner/Turner Broadcasting System enterprise. - Associated Press SITE OF THE WEEK OLD IS NEW: With the cultural chaos accompanying the approach of the new millennium, it's natural for people to harken har·ken v. Variant of hearken. Verb 1. harken - listen; used mostly in the imperative hark, hearken listen - hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello" back to seemingly simpler times in American history. For a dose of such reality-dodging, www.yesterdayusa.com offers a host of old-time radio programs Listed below are vintage radio programs associated with Radio's Golden Age. United States Golden Age programs #
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