Word: mall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mall customer will be a lot different from a Harvard Square customer," Emerson says...
While this may be a soothing convenience for frazzled Main Street and mall shoppers, sick of crowds and long check-out lines, it is a loser for state and local tax coffers. Governors addressed this issue--shopping and taxes--in this now waning 105th Congress and so did an Institute of Politics study group on federal and state power struggles this fall. They are issues that aren't likely to go away...
...Press display room in Holyoke Center looks like your average strip mall bookstore--clean, quiet, well stocked with the latest offerings. But the process a book goes through to get the official stamp of Harvard University is vastly different than in a commercial enterprise...
Perhaps it is because they are a majority. The majority gets a decisive say in what common areas look like: they want those areas to look like the festive interior of a suburban shopping mall, and so up goes the tree. Of course, this can't be the rationale. Harvard claims a commitment to diversity and pluralism. They claim a commitment to the protection of minorities. They even have an official policy regarding incidents of racial "insensitivity." It seems reasonable that a concern for insensitivity should extend into the religious realm as well. A majority inclination is surely not enough...
Annually, the town of Worcester is taken over by hordes of teenagers and young twenty-somethings in big pants, dreadlocks and various states of sobriety. The cops spend three days directing traffic and the townies sit, bemused, in the outdoor food court of the mall across the street from the Centrum. Worcester is not a born-again hippie town, but for a weekend every year, Phisheads make it their...