Word: palmers
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...Palmer Street Coop currently has three ways that it treats used books during buyback season. If the book has been reordered by a professor—as about 1500 (of 5000 total each semester) already have—the Coop will pay 50 percent of the new price, sometimes less if the book is in bad shape. For books that are not yet reordered, but which the Coop speculates will be reordered based on past history, the buyback price is 25-35 percent of new price. The Coop book department usually speculates on 1000 to 1200 books each semester. Correct...
...postwar Iraq situation is already turning into a religious controversy among Islamic groups. Let us not be so naive as to let evangelists take advantage of the situation. The Crusaders did enough damage more than a thousand years ago. RICHARD J. PALMER Isla Verde...
...stage name when a typesetter for Specialty Records accidentally garbled his moniker: King Earl. King's hundreds of songs, which included Mardi Gras staple Big Chief and R.-and-B. hits Trick Bag and Come On (Let the Good Times Roll), were recorded by Jimi Hendrix and Robert Palmer...
...Naughton, of Kodiak, Alaska, opened her franchise five months ago after being taken to a Curves by her daughter in Palmer, Alaska. When Naughton, 47, cracked her nest egg for the initial $19,900 investment, her husband thought she was nuts, she says. She has already made half the money back (and dropped from a size 18 to a 12). "I never pictured myself in this profession," says Naughton, a former Teamster driver on the TransAlaska pipeline. What got her interested, she says, is that Curves customers seemed to be having fun--a word not often associated with lifting weights...
...Palmer brought in the most money, and after a few last words, Chopra and Vaux sandwiched his face between two cream pies...