Word: salem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even as he was honored, some of Walton's roots were wondering about just what he had wrought. Writer Tim Larimer grew up in Salem, Ill. (pop. 7,800), which ended up in the middle of a Wal-Mart nest. On visits home he watched the storefronts go dark one by one, places where he had met and laughed with friends as a kid. One Saturday afternoon he counted four empty stores on one side of the business block and two on the other. Two cars were parked downtown. The Wal-Mart on the west edge of Salem was humming...
...There are more publishers now--especially in England and small university presses--that insist that we go through the Copyright Clearance Center, which adds another fee," says William G. Witt, copyright officer at Harvard's Sourcebook Publications office. Copyright Clearance Center is a Salem, Mass.-based, not-for-profit corporation that processes copyright permissions request for the academic community...
About 200 people gathered yesterday for a solemn service in Cambridge's First parish Church commemorating the victims of the Salem witch trials 300 years...
...Laverne Cassidy, the 54-year old owner of Sweet Food Market in Salem, sitting in her empty convenience store, spoke of her own dissatisfaction...
...Even with the country in a depression--that'swhat this is--it doesn't seem like people see muchof a choice on either side," said Joe Perrota, 58,sipping coffee at the front counter of Pattavina'sFamily Restaurant in Salem...