Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waldenbooks, Lucky supermarkets and Walgreen drugstores banned the issue. The Southland Corp. kept it out of 4,200 7-Eleven stores because, a spokeswoman said, it was "beyond the bounds of good taste." Yet most 7- Eleven stores sell condoms all the time, displaying them right on the aisles...
...both the hope of these peasants and the yoke that dooms them to poverty. Over the years, land parcels have shrunk to handkerchief size through repeated division among descendants and illegal seizures by landowners. Even the practice of voodoo has had an effect: some peasants have been forced to sell their land to pay for elaborate religious rituals for dead relatives...
...public health measure, and the initiative is peppered with references to animal health, as if that were its primary goal. Of course, all farmers have a vested interest in keeping their animals in good shape. Nor do government inspectors take a kindly view of farmers who try to sell sick animals for public consumption. The health provisions of the bill are redundant--a smokescreen for the introduction of vague regulations calling for "sufficient" or "adequate" environmental conditions and "humane treatment" and the threat of $1000 fines...
Council leaders said they are hoping for a quick sell-out, and added that a council-sponsored show by rocker Elvis Costello sold out two years ago on the first day tickets were available...
...organizers sell all the concert tickets, thecouncil stands to make more than $6000 on theCliff show, which will cost about $20,000, Leesaid. This margin should provide a "buffer" if theshow does not sell out, Lee said. Any profit willfund future council social events, he added...