Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they helped Marcos and his wife Imelda secretly acquire New York real estate. Faced with prosecution for contempt of Congress if they kept silent, Joseph and Ralph Bernstein described the complicated dealings of the Philippine first family, who allegedly hold three office buildings and an enclosed, multistory shopping mall in Manhattan, estimated to be worth some $350 million. Joseph Bernstein even recalled joining Mrs. Marcos on a midnight drive to a Wall Street building, where she went to gaze in admiration at her possession. "She was kind of proud of it," he said...
...with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums...
...menus. Consumers who shop by keyboard complain that on-line service can be sluggish and undependable. Orders placed electronically may reach retailers in a flash, but they are often filled by hand and thus subject to human inefficiencies. A Sears color TV that Hovanees ordered through CompuServe's Electronic Mall never did arrive. And, as Peggy Berk can testify, there are special risks in relying on computer systems that are shared with thousands of strangers. She once spent three days reconstructing her client contact list after an unidentified hacker broke into a confidential mailbox on The Source and dispatched...
Kingsport, Tenn., rookie ball in the Appalachian League, is a typical first professional depot on the tour to the majors--"a one-mall town," as described by Gooden in the modern tongue. Youmans recalls, "The night I walked in, he was waiting for me. We just hugged and cried." The team's transportation around the mountains was a bus, of course, but for some reason the two friends found it endlessly funny that it was a school bus (no air conditioner). Every day Dwight called home. "Sometimes twice a day," Dan Gooden says. "One month we had a $460 phone...
...double feature was reinstated after the Harvard Square Theatre owners bought the Galeria Mall's Janus for the purpose last month...