Word: kiosks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctor? All too often, you can only pick one you know nothing about from a list supplied by your employer's managed-care plan. But if you happen to work for one of 24 large corporations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, you could visit a kiosk near your office, punch a button and see a computer screen light up with a sales pitch like this, from pediatrician Leonard Snellman...
...Monday, the coffee house, pizza stand and Mexican kiosk will close at 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 p.m. on Friday and will not open at all on Saturday or Sunday. The complex itself will still remain open until...
...plan to trim the growth of Medicare. They had scrapped a set of even tougher spots, because they hadn't "mall-tested" well. In a mall test, which Penn had pioneered as a way of refining television ads for AT&T, Clinton spots would be shown to voters in kiosks set up in malls in 16 swing states. At the kiosk, a Penn and Schoen employee would ask a voter questions about his or her political affiliations and views of the President, then enter them on a computer. After viewing the spot, the voter would answer another series of questions...
Sugrue, the police sergeant, said officers will only ticket people for serious offenses. "We're not jumping on people about giving hand signals or anything rinky dink," Sugrue said. "If someone is riding at breakneck speed along the kiosk [in Harvard Square], they will get a fine...
...stories do have a definite narrative line, others are complete nonsense. The majority of his work, as in the following excerpt from "The Object Lesson," is a combination of the two: "At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum, so the others retired to the kiosk, only to discover the cakes iced a peculiar shade of green...