Word: caters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously toys today cater to a media-conscious following. And for those not in the know, shopping can be disheartening. An older gentleman speaking in heavily-accented English wandered through the Jordan Marsh toy department. Approaching a stranger he demanded excitedly "Where are the Legos? At FAO Schwartz, at Filenes, at everywhere they say no Legos, try the Jordan Marsh. Where are they?" The stranger pointed him in the direction of Suckerman
...despite the enormous regard in which multitudes hold this remarkable new Pope, his hard line will drive more Roman Catholics out of the church and discourage men and women from entering the priesthood and the religious orders. The competing theory, heard increasingly in the Vatican, is that churches that cater to contemporary notions in order to maintain church membership do not prosper. The decline of many liberalizing American Protestant churches seems to bear out that view. The biblical example of Gideon, who chose to fight with an army of 300 dedicated men rather than 22,000 fainthearts, seems to apply...
Although there is a certain homogeneity--from city to city, hotels are designed alike, restaurants often use the same china, waiters and waitresses wear the same austere black and white uniforms--the government maintains diverse economic establishments that cater to different Cuban clienteles. There is the local bar in the town of Trinidad in which the only barstool is a concrete stoop. And then there is the Tropicana nightclub, still perhaps the most lavish in the world, where dancers in glitter and feathers parade across an outdoor stage set amid a grove of palm trees...
...Shanti Spaeth and her husband Karl regard street music as theater. They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year...
State Rep. William F. Galvin said yesterday the date the bill becomes effective should be postponed until the summer. The transition to the higher drinking age might be unnecessarily wild because of promotions by bars that cater to younger drinkers, Galvin said...