Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checkout counter, Schor puts these theories to the test in some of Harvard Square's most conspicuous establishments. Dishing the dirt on Abercrombie & Fitch, Pacific Sunwear, and the newly renovated Harvard Coop, Schor deconstructs hidden advertising tricks, rants about the shrinking fashion cycle and issues advice on how to avoid impulse buying...
...teenage girls walk around the far side of the store, trying to avoid her on their way to the dressing room, Schor's gaze pans and fixates on something in the distance. "Oh, this is very clever of them...
...Middle East's wall, selling CDs out of a giant box, greeting, head butting and autographing stuff for a constant stream of fans, from fraternity types to XZpunk rockers, most of whom treated him with either shocked amusement or the kind of condescension which I was trying to avoid. I periodically asked him questions. I occasionally received answers...
Military coups typically succeed such popular murmurs of dissatisfaction when true societal development does not keep up with political reform. Nigerian citizens cannot afford another military coup, but according to Obasanjo, the real issue is whether the world can afford to pay $30 billion to avoid another military coup in Nigeria. With ambiguities about the future of military institutions in countries such as Nigeria, it would appear that the situation could quickly develop into a blackmail of the global financial assistance system. This is why President Obasanjo's threat to the western world--that if the external debt...
...many card issuers don't even collect that. It's the merchants who take the hit - standard bank practice when the cards are not present at the point of sale (when they are present, the loss is the bank's). Address verification and other screening programs can help merchants avoid bad sales. Yet these tools are not that widely used, notes Bill Brown, a director at VeriFone, a secure-payment-software maker. "To me, that says they're not losing that much." MORE...