Word: afterthought
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When the first store opened, in Hollywood in 1964, founder Wayne Mitchell, a former car salesman from the Midwest, was running a chain of California organ shops. Mitchell bought out a competitor, acquiring a shipment of guitars and amplifiers. Almost as an afterthought, he hung a GUITAR CENTER sign on a storefront on Sunset Boulevard to unload the new merchandise and launched his company from the sleepy world of keyboards into the nascent West Coast rock scene. The Hollywood outlet soon gained a reputation as a place where the stars shopped--some of its earliest customers included members...
...preferred-customer savings on the register tape before handing it to the shopper. "Nice little touch," Dion says approvingly. "Maybe they could add to that a sincere 'thank you,' which would be nice. But they didn't when I was there." The way his voice falls before adding the afterthought says a lot about the frustrations of store shopping--and managing. It says the little things count for a lot. And it says don't take them for granted...
Some worry that the former dean of undergraduate education will ultimately treat student issues as an afterthought...
...first public mention of preregistration was last August, in a pamphlet published by GSAS. Thus the driving force behind preregistration was the important issue of employment security for graduate students. Improved undergraduate advising was an afterthought, convenient for awhile but awkwardly abandoned when it was agreed that other methods might be used for predicting enrollments...
...rights of falsely accused students have entered into the dialogue on sexual assault, if at all, largely as an afterthought and sideshow to other issues. One can speculate on the reasons why this side of the issue has received such little attention...