Word: catered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cricket Bats. A few shops now cater to left-handers who either cannot or will not adjust to a right-handed world. One of the most interesting-run by a righthander, surprisingly-is Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. in London's West End. Its director, William Gruby, 39, opened his store late last year after giving a dinner party at which he and his wife found that their four guests were all left-handed and all perfectly willing to complain bitterly about the nuisances of life in a right-handed world. Doing market research, Gruby found that shop clerks treated...
...most of them, is simply trapped in their own whirlpool. They go to work in the morning and come home at night, and they just don't have the opportunity to meet new people." Building to something akin to missionary zeal, Milgrim continues: "The few places that cater to singles-clubs, $3-a-head dances or whatever-can be pretty degrading. The marvelous thing about a cruise like this is the preservation of basic dignity. Here the singles have created their own world-where they have to answer...
Unlike the old European munitions makers, who made it a point of honor to sell to all comers, the U.S. law-and-order suppliers usually cater only to the police. Though some states ban sales to the public of items like tear gas, the industry generally operates under its own self-imposed restraints. The police market, after all, is likely to boom for quite some time. "Even if the students really organize a peace movement instead of rioting," says Gunn of Bangor Punta, "it won't happen overnight...
Swiss bankers admit that numbered accounts have been exploited, but they put most of the blame on the 100 or so foreign-owned banks in their country and only a handful of small, Swiss-owned institutions. They insist that, contrary to legend, the biggest banks do not cater to South American dictators or Mafia magnates. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the thousands of numbered accounts belong to Europeans rather than Americans...
...night spots, Club Tokyo and Night Tokyo, now cater to an all-female clientele with well-scrubbed young hosts in dark suits who are available for cosy chats and dancing at $2.22 per hour. The aim, explains Club Tokyo Manager Motoki Inoue, is "sex equality in this he-man's land." Nightly, merry widows in miniskirts and portly housewives in kimonos turn up where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre...