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Next year, students will be able to borrow books from Widener, Hilles, Cabot and the Divinity School libraries without filling out time-consuming paperwork, thanks to a new computerized checkout system, library administrators said...
...part of the University's new Harvard On-Line Library Information System (HOLLIS), when taking out a book students will merely present their I.D. cards at the checkout counter where they will be scanned by a computer...
...Beatrice. Profits on those raids: $13.2 million. The Hafts' biggest score came in October 1986, when the Safeway company paid Dart $59 million to go away, so that the chain's management could execute a $4.1 billion leveraged buyout of the firm. Dart's total take at the Safeway checkout stand: $137 million. Six months later, the Hafts cleared $32 million more after an assault on Supermarkets General...
...CHILD IN TIME by Ian McEwan. This story about a girl kidnaped from a supermarket checkout bridges the gap between private anguish and public policy in contemporary England. A masterly work by one of Britain's finest young writers...
...Babbitt has not been above an occasional publicity stunt. Even before his stand-up routine on the NBC debate, he was the first presidential candidate to appear this year in a Saturday Night Live skit (in which he is caught trying to sneak extra grocery items through the express checkout). Following his disastrous video performance at the Houston debate in July, Babbitt almost daily practiced speaking into a videocamera, sometimes sending the tapes to an acting coach...