Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phyllis Whitney is just back from Norway with practical advice about scouting locales: "Islands are easy. You do your homework before going and get introductions from people like librarians when you arrive. Cities are harder. In Istanbul, I solved the problem by concentrating on just one mosque, one covered bazaar, one small town up the Bosphorus...
...Apartheid. The working class has been uneasiest of all, and since 1965 it has responded with rising passion to Tory M.P. Enoch Powell's vision of rivers "foaming with much blood" and of an England transformed by hordes of "grinning pickaninnies" into a vast Asian or African bazaar. "The explosion which will blow us asunder is there," cried Powell, "and the fuse is burning...
...Quieter Bazaar. Last week a substantial part of the computerized future arrived-not for the proud exchanges but for the humbler over-the-counter market. Until now, that market has been a telephonic bazaar for shares of firms too small to qualify for listing or unwilling to meet the exchanges' disclosure requirements. Brokers have had to find out the going price of any given over-the-counter stock by making individual calls to other brokers specializing in those shares. In a technological leap, 750 leading brokers switched last week to an automated quotation system. They punched their...
After a $50-per-week job as editorial assistant to Editor Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar, Ali signed on as a photographer's helper and began to carom around New York. "I never had a hi-fi or even a sofa in those days," she recalls. "I just threw a mattress on the floor most places...
...Florida coast, Grand Bahama until 15 years ago was little more than 550 square miles of scrub, coral and limestone. Since then, $1 billion in foreign investment, mainly from the U.S., has built a dozen resort hotels, retirement homes, an oil refinery, several industrial plants and an International Bazaar where tourists shop in Chinese pagodas and London-like mews. For those looking for faster action, there are casinos, including two of the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Almost everything has been imported-even the palm trees...