Word: restock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sports, life-style, personalities and fiction. The quarterly magazines will contain 30 full ad pages each and only 27 minutes' worth of editorial material, geared to the average time a patient spends in a doctor's waiting room. Each month a Whittle representative will visit subscribing waiting rooms to restock a specially designed wooden display rack (which is furnished by Whittle) with fresh copies...
Over in the stationery department, buyer Philip A. Bakirakis says that all day he does nothing but restock greeting cards--the Coop offers more than 400 running feet of card displays in 1500 different holidays styles. The store also keeps more than 2300 rolls of gift wrap on the floor at one time, and for those who just can't wield scissors and Scotch tape the Coop offers free gift wrapping for purchases of $15 or more...
...wheat shorts and soya supplemented by vitamins and minerals, and drinking water from taps-all luxuries unknown to most Haitians, much less the old black hogs. Once the island is declared free of disease, the Haitian government, aided by a $27 million Inter-American Development Bank loan, will restock the island pig population, establishing breeding and slaughtering facilities. The fear, however, is that this ambitious commercial plan will bypass the peasant...
Many shopkeepers feel exhausted from trying to keep up with their ravenous clientele. "It has been so fast we've had to bring people in as early as 5 a.m. to restock the shelves," groans E. Erick Gaither, manager of a Sears store in Tucker, Ga. At Palo Alto's Emporium-Capwell, employees are often so harried they forget to take their breaks. Said Heidi Thomas, a clerk in petite women's wear: "Last Saturday we were swamped. A lot of shoppers had clothes draped over their arms. I was so busy I couldn't handle...
...front window. Prices are inflated: in one showcase, a pair of secondhand children's trousers was marked 500 kwanzas, or roughly $40 at the official exchange rate. But very often merchants refuse even to sell what little they offer, for fear that they will not be able to restock their shelves...