Word: delicatessens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against a demand that exceeds 1,300 a day. Business is up 122% over last year. Morande talks bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging and burning wood...
...talk on national issues. They were given the impression that their guest would be Pollster Caddell. Caddell did call on the Fishers to inform them that the President himself would be there in an hour; he handed Bette Fisher $100 to buy refreshments. She rushed to a delicatessen about ten miles away and bought mounds of cold cuts and cole slaw, but Carter and Rosalynn, who accompanied him on both trips, declined to eat anything; they settled for lemonade. Ginny Porterfield had prepared coffee and sweet rolls for the visitor from Washington and friends and neighbors, including two doctors, some...
...third set Curley pulled to a 5-0 lead and it looked like he was going to have another delicatessen breakfast, but the Big Green took four games in a row before Curley could lox up the match...
...lunchtime crowd of about 30 people at Elsie's Delicatessen and Lunch on Mt. Auburn St. calmly ate their food on the sidewalk after a bomb threat on Friday forced the evacuation of the restaurant...
...same is true if you go into the neighborhood delicatessen or laundry and ask about the Occupational Safety and Health Act. 'Hey, are you obeying OSHA?' And the guy behind the counter sneers, 'Osha, gosha, forget it!' If the majority of people ignore the law, it will stop the vitality of our country-the voluntarism on which it is built...