Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson also asked why the Coop built a branch in downtown Boston. The store is located in the same building where a new Harvard Club of Boston exists and is designed to serve the alumni (one of the groups the Coop has served since 1898) and their needs. The downtown Boston store, because of the absence of profitless textbook sales, provides a higher margin of profit and benefits everybody's rebate...
...most serious problems are on branch lines, which are often unprofitable. In many areas of Kansas and Illinois, grain shipments creep along on trains that can safely travel only at 10 m.p.h. Overall, an estimated 30% of total U.S. track mileage needs major repair...
Efforts to rebuild the railroads should be buoyed by the deregulation law passed by Congress last year, which directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to give the railroads more freedom to raise their freight rates. Rail executives hope that they can make many branch lines profitable and restore their tracks and roadbeds. Otherwise, they argue, the lines should simply be abandoned...
...copies of the Duffy movie bars are dispensing drama and drinks (and pizza and pepperoni) in East Hartford and North Haven, Conn. The Poor Richard's Pub and Cinemas were also started by two brothers, Richard and Rene Dupuis, 45 and 35, who wanted to branch out of their family charter bus business. They too will open more. Says Rene: "A young couple can go out, see a movie, have a pitcher of beer, a couple of sandwiches and a box of popcorn for under $10. There aren't many places left like that...
Baseball's Branch Rickey once offered a serviceable definition: "Luck is the residue of design." To be sure, luck obeys the laws of a spooky kind of antiphysics, but it responds to risk and reflexes. To some extent, it is true that people make their own luck. Given a lucky chance at the story, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ran hard. Good luck must have room to occur. It can be encouraged, even though its exact mechanics remain perverse and mysterious. For its part, bad luck is so eventually inevitable that it is almost a sin to be surprised...