Word: outletting
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...Stew Leonard's Farms, a large retail food outlet in Norwalk, Conn., computerized check-out scanners keep watch over the shelf and warehouse stocks of more than 650 different consumer items. Says J. Michael Peters, the firm's financial controller: "These scanners have helped tremendously to keep inventories in line with sales. Before we got them, it would take days, sometimes even weeks, to check out our inventory-to-sales position. Now the scanners provide the data instantaneously...
With an unnerving full-field, man-to-man defense that forced Crimson goalic Tim Pendergast into long forays up the field simply to find an outlet pass (the "something new"). Rutgers reasserted control of the ball and tempo that Harvard had momentarily borrowed. But then the bubble burst...
...races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which the islanders not only eavesdrop but into which they even plug their radios for family entertainment. Legend has it that one vengeful curmudgeon attached the lone telephone wire to an electric power outlet and blew out the radios in the Falklands...
Croissant outlets range from trendy restaurants to chains of cafes like California's Croissants USA. The leading American croissant maker is Vie de France, based in Vienna, Va., a French bakery chain that is 65% owned by the Grands Moulins flour-milling firm of Paris. Vie de France opened its first outlet in Rockville, Md., in 1972. Turnover limped along at about $4 million annually until 1978, when the company started a major marketing program for croissants. Now the company sells 950,000 a week from its bakeries and from 18 retail stores in 13 cities. Vie de France...
...family anger takes different forms. Pearl becomes a compulsive handyman. "All she wanted was to be allowed to get on with what mattered: calk the windows; weatherstrip the door. With tools she was her true self, capable and strong." Son Cody finds his outlet as a time-and-motion consultant. The richer he grows weeding out waste and inefficiency around the country, the clearer it becomes that time and motion are all he truly possesses. Daughter Jenny is a pediatrician who marries three times and buries herself in runny noses, diaper rashes and colic. There seems to be no line...