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Since HUDS' goal is to cater to the students, Hennessey says it places great importance on students' constructive comments and encourages them to use the suggestion box located on the checker's desk at the Union...
...fact, on the West Coast, where billiard gentrification has yet to catch on, the large, established pool halls cater to families. Says manager Mort Brock of Tommy T's in suburban Portland, Ore.: "Pool has cleaned up its act. A lot of people come in here and say, 'Gee, we can't believe there's a place like this...
...bitter aftertaste. It swept the Japanese market, in which dry beer now accounts for 35% of sales, and triggered a pack of imitators. Whether that story will repeat itself in the U.S. remains to be seen. The Asian imports have sold well at West Coast bars and restaurants that cater to connoisseurs of Japanese cuisine, but so far are lagging behind the ever popular Dutch, West German and Canadian brews...
...cater to women scattered across the farm belt, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Ind., lets students earn degrees through independent study, conferring with professors by phone and mail. The program accounts for more than half the college's 950 students. Many of the women are retooling for off-the-farm careers to supplement their family income. For Teresa Miller, 40, who is working toward a degree in social work, studying on campus would have meant commuting 100 miles a day. "This way," she says, "I can pick up the kids, do errands on the farm...
...middle-class squeeze. He has proposed programs to relieve specific discontents. One would give students the rest of their lives to repay their college loans; another would require employers to buy health insurance for 22 million workers who have none. Bush, too, has seen the need to cater to the middle class. Last week he announced a plan that would allow savers to deposit $1,000 a year in accounts that would pay tax-deferred interest. Dukakis responded by waving a crumpled $20 bill to represent the amount an average family could benefit in one year...