Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bean. Freeport, Me. (pop. 6,700), is an unlikely Mecca. Yet every year 2.5 million American worshipers of sensible, frugal and unpretentious products for the outdoors descend on the Yankee seaside town. Their aim: to visit the one and only L.L. Bean company store, which is open around the clock and features 6,000 items, ranging from moccasins to sleeping bags to camel-hair cardigans. However, many more Americans know the company through the 75 million L.L. Bean catalogs that are mailed out annually. Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, the company, founded to market a superior hunting boot...
...Brazil's BancoMovel (mobile bank), many of the best-dressed people wear mostly suntan lotion. Housed in small red 9-ft. by 5-ft. trailers, two of these automated tellers-on-wheels are stationed in or around beach resorts near Rio and Sao Paulo, providing cash around the clock to customers who may leave home without their clothes but never without their electronic banking cards...
...Crusaders repeatedly worked the 45-second shot clock down to single digits in the first half in an attempt to pull the Crimson out of its usual run-and-gun style of play...
...born Sam Lopata. Taking New York City as his backdrop, Lopata, 45, has unveiled some half-dozen eateries in the past year alone, each in a distinctive style. Foremost among them are the reserved restoration of the haute cuisine Lutece; the playful deli-diner that is Lox Around the Clock; Casino Pascal, a barren redo of a plusher, earlier Lopata work; and Extra! Extra!, in the New York Daily News Building, a stylish cafe with a black-and-white newsprint theme and "spilled ink" glazed onto floor tiles. On the drawing board for next year: a face- lifting for that...
...Sakharovs had heard the good news four days earlier from an impeccable source. At 10 o'clock one evening, workmen had unexpectedly installed a telephone in their Gorky apartment. The next day at 3 p.m. Sakharov received a call from none other than the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet leader said the Sakharovs would be permitted to return to Moscow and that Andrei could go back to his "patriotic work...