Word: caters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other University day-care centers cater primarily to children of students and professionals, Harvard child care advisor Frances H. Howe said yesterday...
Richard Newcombe, manager of the new Harvard Square Mug 'n' Muffin, said yesterday his restaurant will cater to the same clientele as Country Kitchen...
...Square also houses approximately 26 recognized churches, and a panoply of ethnic groups to fill them--Russians, Greeks, Haitians, West Indians, Portuguese, Orientals--as well as a growing number of poor people. There are markets which cater to a world of culinary and other needs. There is the Kamala Devi Indian imports store at 1741 Mass Ave, there is a West Indian music store, a YMCA, an Acupuncture Center at 380 Green Street, and Shelter, Inc., a recently-formed overnight hostel for homeless men and women...
Editors might hesitate to describe as voyeurism the public tastes they cater to, but they do constantly broaden their standards of what is fit to print. The direction is mostly downhill, or toward more freedom, depending on your point of view. After all, women-Congressmen's girl friends, Presidents' bedmates-now gleefully sign book contracts to describe conduct that once would have earned them a scarlet A as a branded adulteress...
Even in stores that cater to a less well-heeled clientele, retailers discovered that big-ticket items such as furs (TIME, Dec. 29) and electronic digital watches were selling briskly. Consumers, it seemed, were interested in high-quality goods and were less inclined than they once were to hunt for bargains. This year's most popular items included sportswear, fashion accessories and cosmetics, along with newfangled small appliances like peanut-butter makers and electric hot-dog grillers and such voguish gimmicks as mood rings and "pet rocks." Only "intimate apparel" clearly fell shy of merchants' expectations...