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Word: cashier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eggs. They go really fast. People come in here from parties six in the morning after they've been out partying. They buy a lot of eggs," said Toyin O. Adesanya, Store 24 cashier. "And there's especially good sales of firelogs. I guess you ignite it and drink around...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: GOBBLE, GOBBLE | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

Kate E. Huston, a UMass student and Sage's cashier, says some customers pass over turkey for less traditional holiday fare...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: GOBBLE, GOBBLE | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...able to write their name often do so. "I won't sign anything flimsy," says golfer Lee Trevino, who recalls autographing a $5 bill once for a persistent woman in a restaurant. " 'I'll treasure it forever,' she told me. Of course, I got it back from the cashier in my change." The only autograph basketball's Tom Van Arsdale ever solicited was from an Indiana high school kid, Oscar Robertson, when Van Arsdale was even younger. "He was eating a hot dog. I'll never forget the way he shoved it in his pocket to free his hands. Mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assembly Line of Dreams | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...workers and job applicants. But the scientific validity of these devices has never been proved, and the tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because a polygraph test indicated that she might be a drug dealer and might have served a prison sentence. Neither was true. Holleman sued Alexander's, and they reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honestly, Can We Trust You? Employers seek an integrity test | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...Already exhausted, I walk four more blocks through ankle-deep slush to another store for toothpaste. I select some, proceed to a separate counter to a cashier with an abacus, pay the bill, then go back to the toothpaste counter with a stamped ticket to pick up my purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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