Word: kiosk
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...thing that's so hard about defeating capitalism is that it springs up everywhere. A kiosk selling fire-fighter souvenirs, called the 911 Marketplace, has grown into a large, second-floor, center-of-the-mall store. Its co-owner Sean Moriarty, 31, a full-time St. Paul fire fighter, is learning just how fast capitalism moves: like the rest of the stores in the mall, his shop has had to mark down the T shirts that bear the Sept. 11 date. Gurdial Singh, 50, a turbaned Sikh, has lost some of the business on the AMERICA'S PRIDE shirts...
...belligerent stance will make Iran - still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism - a target of renewed U.S. wrath. "If America attacks, we're the ones who'll have to fight," says Ali Hojjati, 20. The day after Khamenei's speech, an old man at a kiosk gazed at a headline in the right-wing paper Kayhan: America is insincere, we won't cooperate. "I remember during the Gulf War, one of the reformists said we should help the Iraqis fight the U.S.," he recalled. "How come every time there's a war outside, Iran has to have...
...125th Street and Lenox Ave. newspaper kiosk, I spotted a colorful brochure among a stack of giveaways. Multicolored lettering against neon orange implored: "Harlem: Your Uptown Spot to Shop!" Using this map of stores, restaurants, and services as a guide I made a random selection of locations and jumped to this new shopping challenge...
...point-deduction system for misplaced posters should also be reevaluated. If a candidate has 25 posters (of the hundreds that get hung each season) that are either covering that of another campaign, or are put up more than one time on a kiosk face or bulletin board, that candidate is disqualified from the race. The problem is that the rule does not acknowledge the fact that misplaced posters—especially those accidently misplaced by otherwise good-intentioned campaign volunteers—can be promptly removed without further damage to the election process...
...villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each, and one out of six has to walk at least 5 km to reach a computer. Charging about 10 cents, a kiosk manager records villagers' complaints or provides them with information. That user fee makes kiosks self-sustaining...