Word: malle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally taciturn Yitzhak Shamir mounts a campaign podium, he plays the crowd's emotions with the precision of an acupuncturist. "I heard about the problems that you are struggling with every day, the stones and the Molotov cocktails," he shouts at 800 Likud loyalists gathered in a shopping mall on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem. As his lips produce the sound, his fists become the fury, chopping the air and pounding the lectern. "Those who are trying to throw us out of Jerusalem will not be able to move us!" he proclaims. "The Likud will end the intifadeh ((uprising))." Shamir...
Forget the downtown department store and the suburban shopping mall. Leave the catalogs on the coffee table and turn off the video-shopping channel. Hop into the car with a full bandolier of credit cards and head for the outback. Tucked away in Monterey, Calif.; Boaz, Ala.; Rockford, Mich.; Freeport, Me.; and a dozen odd small towns in between, scores of manufacturers' outlet stores are doing a land-office business by offering 25% to 70% savings. Along with the bargains, urban consumers enjoy a day in the country and engage in a venerable American dream -- the inalienable right to pursue...
...some, low prices are only part of the attraction. Says Luanne Culbert, a New Jersey chiropractor's wife who gave up her job as a stockbroker to raise her daughter Erin, 2: "It's a great day in the fresh air without the hubbub of the mall. I look for things that aren't in the department stores...
...merchants." Still, on a pleasant Saturday $ afternoon, with traffic tied up and stores mobbed with bargain blitzers, one wonders what the locals do for fun. They go shopping, of course. "We can't even move around here," says one resident. "So we usually head over to Bridgewater Commons Mall. You know, to shop at Macy's and Brooks Brothers." Apparently, it's all a matter of perspective. When you live in the middle of a bargain, full price is a new kind of kick...
...With the new shopping mall and surge in new housing in construction," says Fucillo, "I believe this area of Cambridge is ripe for the kind of cuisine and service First Street will provide. At some point we will be able to offer home delivery of almost all of our menu items...