Word: lingerer
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...typical mall store). But the real attraction is the opportunity to cuddle up with your favorite volume for as long as you want. Far from shooing away loiterers, these superstores operate on the philosophy that by creating an inviting atmosphere, they can lure customers who will linger and eventually plunk down their money...
...Chan continue to linger. Tau point out that groups like the IOP are "so big that they can mow down anyone. "Perhaps their size can be correlated with the size and proliferation of their posters. Chan adds that postering is a "Sisyphean and frustrating task." But some people, like Stephanie Levin, an graduate students, poster as a work-study job and are unaware of any postering preferences except postering where it is most noticeable...
...same questions linger now as they did for Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George Bush in 1992: What is the rationale for a second term? After his party's drubbing in last November's midterms, what can Clinton offer that will convince voters he should be President for six more years instead of two? The President's nascent re-election team believes it has found at least one answer in the public's level of discomfort with the Republican agenda. No longer able to advance much of his own legislative program, Clinton is positioning himself as a bulwark against...
...know what the word is, relaxed, or serene, at peace, or whatever the word is. I don't go to bed every night and think, 'I've got to get this done. I've got to be successful.' " He talks more openly about the pain and the disability that linger from his war injury, how he cannot look at himself in the mirror in the morning until after he has put on his T shirt, how he must reach for a hook to button his shirt...
...less fascinating are the patrons, who tend to linger for about an hour--the time it takes to decently smoke a cigar. Some of them visit less than once a month, others show up several times in a day. A case of the latter is square-dweller George Despotes, who commented, "If you lose your marbles, it's a place to come. If things start to smell, it's also a place to come." Despotes, indeed, had his own aroma...