Word: retail
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...million project--which will be known as Charles Square--includes hotel, retail, and residential space on a four-acre site behind the Kennedy School of Government and along Memorial Drive...
Carpenter and Co was selected from a group of six semi-finalists but community groups were again unhappy with the plans. They criticized Carpenter's proposed project as too heavily based on office and retail uses, which they said would generate the same traffic that had doomed the Kennedy project...
...largely nonunionized high-tech workers is $7.48 (national average: $8.50), hardly enough to support a family in a state with some of the highest living costs in the nation. Warns Bluestone: "You are getting a dual economy. At one end you have relatively low-wage, highly unstable jobs in retail trades and service. And at the other end you are getting a not insignificant number of skilled, relatively high-wage, relatively secure jobs." Nevertheless, Massachusetts' rally from its dismal situation in the mid-'70s could serve as a future model for those areas blessed with...
...reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious look at Video Fish One ($39.95 retail), which is a close-up study of an aquarium, may lead to such insidious side effects as glazed eyes and numbed gray cells. It probably looks better from a dentist's chair...
Today millions of pilgrims flock to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots...