Word: malled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they go about their daily chores, cooking and cleaning for the equivalent of five basketball teams' worth of children, Green's wives appear to have no regrets at marrying so young. "I feel I gained. It is better than being a teenager hanging out in a mall or getting pregnant without a husband," says Hannah...
...rarely seen and subliterates are never heard. The fear, disgust and boredom that are the axial coordinates of American urban life in the 2000s do not appear. People are not afraid of growing older. Ripeness is all. They have not become depressed helots to the culture of ignorant mall rats with Dolby stereos. Nobody has heard of Madonna, let alone Donald Trump or Osama bin Laden. No one has started bleating about elitism...
Need your car washed? An audiotape to help you pass the time in traffic? An oil change? Forget the strip mall. If you are a commuter in a growing number of cities, you need go no farther than the local parking garage near your office or airport...
...expectations, but picked up considerably in the last few shopping days before Christmas, with winter apparel - thanks to some cold days - finally getting off the ground. And the ultimate in lazy-man's shopping destinations - the Internet - looks to be having a better season than the mall, as Yahoo announced that Thanksgiving-to-Christmas online sales through its portal were up 86 percent from last year...
...unload the last of their leftover winter inventory on shoppers returning unwearable sweaters for store credit. This year the price cuts will go all the way to the bone and beyond, and there are hopes that the bargains (getting plenty of free publicity from economics writers) will draw enough mall traffic to get the job done...