Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outlets, A Gift for Teaching in Orlando, Fla., and Kids 'N Need in Los Angeles, opened last month. The Kids 'N Need "resource center," located in a World Vision warehouse, is colorfully stocked with shelves of notebooks, vats of pencils, writing paper, dictionaries. It mimics a retail center, minus price tags. "Teachers love the concept," explains SHOPA president Steven Jacober. "A visit seems more like a shopping trip than a charity handout...
...benefits from history. Chicago's started as a bulk-delivery warehouse. Then SHOPA retailers toured Crayons to Computers in Cincinnati and liked the mock-retail approach. As a result, Los Angeles opened as a "free store," Chicago was converted to one, and Crayons to Computers got on SHOPA's gift list...
...emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson and Monica Lewinsky. Perhaps the four-letterization of America was not an unalloyed blessing, and the handing of artistic freedom to an infantile culture was not a wise gift...
...Prize: Gift certificates for Gren del's, moviepasses
Prize: $20 Bertucci's gift certificate