Word: co-op
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...cabs. Waiters at Manhattan restaurants served patrons by candlelight. Buses were delayed only slightly by darkened traffic lights. Garbage trucks whined as usual on their nightly rounds. Mayor Abraham Beame, assuming, like many citizens, that a fuse had blown, ad-libbed a quip during a campaign speech at the Co-op City Traditional Synagogue in The Bronx. "See," he said. "This is what you get for not paying your bills...
...Harvard Cooperative Society may often seem like just another store in the Square, but sometimes it does not act like the co-op it's supposed to be. This spring, student pressure persuaded the Coop to drop J. P. Stevens products from its inventory in support of the Stevens workers efforts to force the company to recognize their union...
...note, we have chosen to draw a formal distinction between the "Bursars cards" available at Harvard, and the "Student Identification" cards routinely available elsewhere. It's not just another Harvard quirk, as you can now plainly see--you know, like a calling the Coop the Coupe instead of the Co-op, or Quincy Kwinnzeee--it's an important thing, grounded in important considerations of this and that." Quite frankly we can't disagree...
...didn't work out. At the start of How to Save Your Own Life, Erica/Isadora is slipping out of the Wing/Jong Upper West Side co-op apartment for the last time, leaving the doctor to his patients and as Isadora says, "his hatred of women." Writes the heroine: "I was on the lam, an exile from a bad marriage, a wandering Jewess; a lifelong New Yorker heading Wes ... I was off to meet a lover and my destiny." In Jong's wall-poster philosophy, today is the first day of the rest of your life...
...dresses over thick trousers, their hair covered by black kerchiefs knotted under black felt hats. "This cooperative has 10,000 acres, and it all used to belong to two men who only hired a few workers when they needed them," says Francisco Antonio Pombinho, 42, a worker in the co-op's machine shop. "Now there are 300 of us, and we work all the year round...