Word: barring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took the "Champagne Special" shuttle from Currier. I was surprised to see everyone all dressed up. Suits and ties? Excuse me? Isn't this the Freshman Union, the one with Teddy Roosevelt's antlers (cut right from his head!) and the butter pats of Damocles? Is there a Bar Mitzvah in the private dining room...
...long and still slow. Braying fools still jump ahead of you to be with their friends. People still get in the right line because it's shorter when the left line is much closer to the food. There is still a mad mob around the drinks and the salad bar and breakfast pastries...
...problem. He is trying to force factories to become financially profitable, so they are gussying up products in order to price them higher than the everyday models that are price-fixed by the bureaucracy. Moscow consumers were deprived for months this winter of regular soap (32 cents a bar) because enterprises wanted to produce only a luxury soap that they could price at $1.60 a bar...
...Every day on the Freshman Union's salad bar, there are 120 pounds of salad greens, 60 pounds of the daily salad, 110 pounds of tomatoes, 50 pounds of cucumbers, 35 pounds of humus, 25 pounds of shredded cheese, 25 pounds of carrot sticks, 20 pounds of celery sticks, 14 pounds of chopped eggs, 12 pounds of tofu and seven pounds of spinach...
...Union has one worker entirely devoted to preparing the salad bar. The employee works from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., checking a computer list to determine how much to put out, then preparing the salad bar items for both lunch and dinner...