Word: coops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When students go to buy their textbooks this week, they will find a surprise awaiting them when they reach the escalator to the third floor of the Harvard Coop's book building...
Store employees are checking bags and tying them closed with red plastic ribbon in a renewed effort to control shoplifting. Coop Security Director Dawn J. Krasinski said the store tied bags during every student "book rush" until three years ago, when staff shortages forced them to end the practice. She said the procedure was meant to show students that the store was watching the merchandise...
...this time of year, with the wind nipping at my neck, the weather cold but not too cold, the air filled with anticipation of the holidays and the New Year. People really do seem nicer this time of year, I think. Then I notice that the guy outside the Coop collecting Christmas money ostensibly for the Salvation Army looks remarkably like the wheelchair basketball guy done up in a Santa Claus outfit...
Makris says she remembers working at the Coop's laundry service--which has since been abolished--filling out the cards for incoming students. "We picked up and delivered their laundry every week," she says...
Argeros says he feels like a newcomer, having been with the Coop for only 10 years. He says the four longtime employees are, "irreplaceable...They represent a generation of service-oriented people who work and dedicate themselves to serving the institution...