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...local campuses have become increasingly security-conscious. Dormitories have instituted checkout procedures, and Eastern Michigan has imposed a curfew. The University of Michigan has increased its cross-campus bus service and installed lights on major streets and walkways. Campus police have stepped up night patrols...
None of the astronauts slept very long before awakening to the most momentous day of their lives. Collins got six hours, Aldrin and Armstrong five apiece. During Apollo's eleventh revolution of the moon, Aldrin and Armstrong donned their space suits and crawled through a tunnel for a final checkout of the lunar module before its long separation from the command module. They paid particular attention to Eagle's propulsion systems?the tanks containing the hypergolic fuels that fire the descent and ascent engines, and the pressure gauges on the helium that forces the fuels into the combustion chambers, where...
Even at the eight-item counter, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company's 4,730 stores will be hard pressed to match President Byron Jay's own express checkout. Three weeks ago, only 13 months before reaching A. & P.'s mandatory retirement age of 65, Jay ended a 41-year, up-from-clerk career with the nation's biggest food chain by 1) chucking the $151,000-a-year job he had held since 1964 and 2) packing himself off to deep seclusion...
...ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...overhead gospel. "Customers are demanding from us what they get in traditional department stores," explains Sherwin Newar, president of the Houston-based Sage International discount chain. This means credit, home delivery and more attractive stores-all of which cost money. Though many discount houses cut costs by using checkout counters and shopping carts instead of big sales forces, other increases in overhead have sent their price markups, once about 25%, as high as 35% -ominously close to the typical department store...