Word: coops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tiny store, Revolution Books is overwhelming. Small, hastily constructed pamphlets lauding the Shining Path in Peru and the unfair imprisonment of Abimael Gúzman are two shelves away from a book more likely found at the Coop, on research into the effects of globalization and international for-profit companies. Nevertheless, pure Marxist theory prevails. The most popular book, according to George Bryant, a Revolution employee, is Karl Marx’s Das Capital...
...building their dirt-floor, four-room hut from bamboo, reeds and mud. The house, perched on a hillside overlooking a fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana beer...
...Harvard Coop Athlete of the Week is 7-for-12 in his last three games, and leads the team in RBI (20) and homeruns...
...particular type of selling, though the behind-the-plate ads, both virtual and real, invaded televised baseball a few years ago. Examples abound: In one of the large office buildings in downtown Boston, elevators now have little screens that play commercials to the captive audience. Buying books at the Coop is an exercise in recycling all kinds of choice advertisements that came along with your books, as the Coop sells the privilege to get your name in a bag a Harvard student will carry. Can you imagine the boredom of being paid to pre-stuff the bags before the semester...
...think a lot of Harvard students are buying the book...in addition to parents buying the book for the children," the Coop's Yasser Cruywagen says...