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Back at Harvard, Taylor found it "hard to pick up the pieces" of unfinished academic research, but he derived much satisfaction from helping to remodel History I into the Gen Ed program...
...Macy's keeps customers loyal by recognizing a trend toward more spending on services and offering services that discounters lack. It has a theater-ticket agency, a travel service and a currency-exchange post for foreign travelers, also offers all kinds of custom services: Macy's will remodel houses, restring tennis rackets, make up hooked rugs to size, and turn out bowling balls to order...
...under, the surviving independent grocers have become bigger and smarter. They have banded into groups, such as the mid-Atlantic region's Foodland Stores and Texas' Minimax. These buy in carload lots, rent computers to watch inventories, and hire experts to keep their books, plan their ads, remodel their stores. The "voluntary chains" increased their share of U.S. food sales from 29% in 1947 to 49% last year...
...Typist. Bush, for example, is forced to teach medical students with equipment that is 20 to 40 years out of date. He could have received a grant to buy a new electron microscope, he said, but he could not get the money to remodel a room with soundproofing and wiring for the delicate instrument. Lesser irritations are also common. Owing to a shortage of secretaries and typewriters, Bush often had to type his own letters...
...keep the Reporter going in the face of this determined opposition, the newspaper unions dug deep into their treasuries. Eighty Portland locals put up $150,000 to buy and remodel an abandoned Wells Fargo stable; the hayloft still serves as the Reporter's city room. The International Typographical Union shipped sev eral carloads of equipment from Miami, including an ancient Hoe press that was dubbed "Little David," and leased the whole lot to the Reporter for a token $10 a year...