Word: malling
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...Barry S. Kane-esque, satchel-wearing administrator with a title that includes either “associate,” “assistant,” or “coordinator” walked into a Holyoke Center office, and triumphantly slammed down a copy of Sky Mall, that useful catalogue that gave us items like the “Hot Diggity Dogger” and a rolling backpack in which you can carry your dog. Somewhere in between the 24-karat gold copies of Lord of the Rings paraphernalia and the life-sized gorilla lawn ornament, Our Assistant...
...Henderson wasn’t ready to resign himself to a mall...
...story told around Arlington National Cemetery holds that John F. Kennedy paid a visit sometime close to Veterans Day in 1963. As he stood near the mansion that once was home to Robert E. Lee, taking in the sweeping view of the Potomac River down below and the National Mall rolling out toward the distant Capitol, he remarked, "I could stay here forever." (Read TIME's memorial coverage: "Gathering to Pay Last Respects...
...would provide goodwill and build customer loyalty, especially in lean times. After all, with more grateful customers in tow, wouldn't the company be in a great position to ride the upswing associated with an economic recovery, raising prices again when times get better? (See TIME's photos: the Mall of America landscapes...
...government can't begin to measure the hidden costs, of course, of sleep or sanity or solitude. It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives. I'm thinking the bureaucrats have not been to a mall lately, since their tables allow about $60 a month for kids' shoes and clothes. It is true that globalization has driven apparel prices down over the years, but if you have daughters, you confront the annual phenomenon whereby the clothes shrink as the prices rise, leaving you wildly grateful for a school dress code requiring...