Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, sold during its first day of availability last November. "Tom Wolfe's was set in Atlanta," she says, "so it was the hottest book we'd ever...
...apparently, society no longer expects me to take this high road. Not only is there a national chain of laser-hair-removal stores, called Vanishing Point, that runs an ad with a woman touching only a finger-sized part of her otherwise hairless body, but--I've completely forgotten the end of this sentence. I'm stuck on that "finger-sized part of her otherwise hairless body" part...
While city activists clamor to protect the distinctiveness of the Square, chain stores are pushing out the Mom and Pop shops of yesterday...
...floors, first-class cinemas may sound like a bad joke. But with a surfeit of mammoth megaplexes filling cities and suburbs, theater owners seem willing to try anything to make their marquees stand apart from the crowd. General Cinema is teaming up with Robert Redford to launch a Sundance chain of art houses...
...Scientists are valiantly attempting to shine a flashlight down the long, dark tunnel of man's ancient past, and they have succeeded in illuminating certain truths. Shame on those who are allowing ignorance and fear to prevent students from having the chance to understand their place in the great chain of human evolution--for it is nothing short of miraculous. KRISTINA OLBERDING Cincinnati, Ohio...