Word: crates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While many students spent yesterday afternoon outside enjoying the sunny, 60-degree weather, firefighters experienced temperatures that soared into the hundreds inside the dark, burning basement of the Crate & Barrel store on Brattle Street...
...three-alarm fire began at about 2 p.m. in a basement storage room beneath Crate & Barrel and caused over $150,000 in damages, according to Deputy Fire Chief Gerald Reardon...
...office several months after the explosion, it was immaculate for the first time in my career. There had been a fire and the sprinklers triggered, but my friends, colleagues and graduate students had lugged everything to a new office and set things up beautifully. At the bottom of one crate, I found my battered but legible copy of essays by E.B. White. I knew immediately what it was doing there and why it had survived the blast; it included a short piece called "What Do Our Hearts Treasure?" White tells in his unsentimental, concrete way about a Christmas...
...shirts and jeans) or the Structures division of the Limited (fashionable casual wear), both of which have opened in the past five years, are going after a new generation of customers who want cheap prices and have yuppie pretensions. That's partly why niche retailers like Crate & Barrel, which specializes in affordable housewares, expect to continue their rapid growth. Gordon Segal, the founder of Crate & Barrel, predicts an 8% sales gain this Christmas for his stores...
...five of these Gen-Xers work at Bowl and Brass, a cheesy Crate & Barrell/Pier One hybrid. Using flashblacks and present-day scenes, Matteau tells a series of interlinking stories about the protagonist Jen, her slacker-poet boyfriend Joe, Joe's exgirlfriend (and Jen's ex-best friend) Joan, Jen's boss Jack, who nurses crushes on both her and Joan, and June, the dippy new shift supervisor...