Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Argeros did admit that "increasing competition for customers and sales, as well as competing in already overburdened labor and real estate markets," has forced costs to rise faster than sales, causing profits to drop. Let's face it. Retailing in Boston is competitive, but it is also lucrative...
...hope you have already read the letter from managing editor Henry Muller on the opening page of this issue. In it, he discusses the ideas behind the innovations you will notice as you read the magazine. Let me go one step further and describe some of the specific stories that illustrate these changes...
...slash Social Security -- never acknowledging that he, like Bush and Quayle, had voted for a freeze in cost of living increases. And dusting off a line he had used at the convention, Bentsen articulated the Democratic case against the apparent success of the U.S. economy: "You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of hot checks every year, I could give you the illusion of prosperity...
...after they arrived, arsonists set a fire beside their car. The next night Donald kept a vigil at the back-porch window. Then he dozed off. He was awakened at 1 a.m. to find their 1976 Chevy Impala in flames. Across the street four young men laughed and shouted, "Let the car burn. Niggers don't need to be in Melrose Park." One night as Stephanie set out for her cashier's job, several youths waved a rope and taunted her with threats of a lynching. Later a crude wooden cross was burned on the lawn...
...recent weeks the incidents against the Sleds have tapered off. A neighbor across the alley has offered to keep an eye on the Sleds' car. Larry Pusateri, the son of the owner of the house, has told the Sleds, "Don't worry, I'm not going to let these bastards move you out." The Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, an organization that helps minorities find housing and attempts to ease racial tensions, has also come to their aid. Neighbors are talking among themselves about what the violence means for a community that prides itself on its neighborly ways...