Word: cvs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long hypothesized about the true meaning of those three letters. "Creepy Vicious Sores?" you speculate as you compare prices on moustache bleach. "Cosmic Viking Shit?" you muse while examining the selection of jelly beans. Not to disappoint, but CVS in fact stands for "Consumer Value Stores." (We know--not as exciting as "Can Veritones Squeal...
Another employee had a little more time to chat. Sammy modestly attributed CVS/pharmacy's immense popularity to its convenience (we of course know that it is more because of its appealing ambience and rare finds), and cited toothpaste (CVS brand--$1.49, Crest Tarter Control--$2-77), eye care ($6.99 for 12 oz. Renu Multi-Purpose Solution), and deodorant (Speedstick sells for $2.19) as its more popular items...
...such a good lead! So well conceived. Here we have this Crimson Production Supervisor. His name just happens to be partick. And if the shamrock-centric CVS display means anything at all it's Saint OPartick's Day season once again. So why not write about our own saint Patrick...
...class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks on vocabulary sheets with the sliding ink of Bic pens--the kind you can buy in 20-packs at CVS. These plastic wonders are a good ol' standby, always there to jot down messages for your roommate on a Post-it or, more importantly, for you to chew on. What a perfect companion a blueberry-colored, Paper Mate makes when you sit on the third floor of Hilles, worrying about...
...Kevin Montague, a 36-year Cambridgeresident who works in the Harvard SquareInformation Booth, agrees. The view from the boothwindow--the Coop, CVS and six banks--pretty muchsums up the "disappointing" changes Harvard Squarehas undergone, he says...