Word: cvs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems perverse that a 13 year-old can buy condoms without incident at CVS while a third year law student must be carded before getting a pack of Marlboros. While pubescent kids are given free reign over their sexual morality, a grad student's personal decision to smoke is continuously punished...
With little time for visits to Star Market, (oreven CVS) students may have to rely on theirparents' intuition. From Master's receptions toroommate dinners and events hosted byextracurricular organizations, if Weekendorganizers have their way, most parents will spendthe weekend on the go--just like the averageundergrad...
Stepping through the door, one enters a schizophrenic barber shop. The single aisle has counters on either side: one sports old-fashioned toiletries, while the other is a condensed CVS. This is the place Harvard gentlemen shop for for an elegant shaving-cream brush (real beaver-fur brushes sell for $40 to 100). The store will also satisfy any student obsessed with hair care: over forty different hairbrushes are discreetly displayed behind glass...
...Madanian's estimation, the store's single best-selling item is the Mason and Pearson hairbrush. It's more expensive than the average CVS plastic model, but "it lasts for twenty years," Madanian says, indicating the finely-crafted brush in a box on the pharmacy counter. "Definitely a quality item," she adds...
...recent years, however, increased competition from national chains such as CVS left Billings and Stover struggling to survive. By the middle of 1994, Madanian says she was ready to try anything to stay in business. So she recreated (as best she could) the store's original soda fountain...