Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Progressive Student labor Movement (PSLM), a group associated with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), kicked off a year of activism by protesting human rights abuses by the popular Guess? clothing company in the first Science Center protest of many to follow. Further rallies followed as a PSLM offshoot, Students Against Sweatshops, brought to Harvard the national movement to make universities accountable for the conditions of workers who manufacture their apparel...
Though Trinity and Harvard University, which owns a fair amount of Square real estate, say they do not offer official "incentives" to small businesses, they do--contrary to popular belief--give those independent businesses preference...
...Starbucks Cafe, an outpost of the wildly popular Seattle, Wash.-based coffee chain, holds court on the first floor, with young professionals and students alike chatting and typing away on their laptops while sipping double mocha lattes. The second floor hosts an upscale hair-styling salon with massive mirrors, chatty hair stylists and cinnamon-y breakfast delights for customers in line for the blow dryers...
Although the police stayed in the building for only 10 years, their subsequent move a decade later to a new building in Eliot Square opened the property for James White to buy and convert it into a carriage factory to address Cambridge's then most-popular means of transportation. Sandy and Janet Cahaly, the current owners, do not know the exact date of the change-in-hands of the property or the date of the photograph that hangs in the hair salon. But county records show that the property was sold to Abraham Lavash of Somerville...
...medicine is risk-free. A potent reminder of the fact came Wednesday when the Food and Drug Administration issued a restrictive public health advisory to the nation?s doctors concerning the popular antibiotic Trovan. The agency acted after receiving reports of 140 cases of liver damage among Trovan users since February 1998. Fourteen of the cases involved acute liver failure in which six patients died. The agency effectively pulled the prescription drug from general pharmacy shelves and instructed doctors to restricts its use to emergency situations in hospitals and nursing homes -- that is, in those instances where the need...