Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radio Shack's Manager Brian Houle agreed. "I don't know what my competition's done wrong," he said, "but we're pretty robust here...
...Yale Repertory Theater demonstrated last week in what it billed as a "25th anniversary" revival of his first international success, The Blood Knot. The play, which Fugard started writing in 1960 and performed in 1961, is the story of two mixed-race brothers who live together in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of Fugard's hometown, Port Elizabeth. One is light-skinned enough to pass for white, and for years he tried to do so; one is unmistakably, and bitterly, black...
...rent. Such private deals are strictly illegal, but they are widely tolerated. Some seaside landladies offer a fair deal, but others are hucksters conjuring up lyrical descriptions of properties that sound too good to be true. Often, they are. A Ukrainian woman found she had rented a deserted shack with no plumbing. Disheartened, she returned to the train station and put down a deposit for another room, but the address proved nonexistent. "I'm sick of the whole idea of vacation," she said. "I want to go home, but I can't buy a train ticket...
...made lap-size computers affordable. Last year Seattle-based Microsoft and Japan's Kyocera came up with the first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built-in software for less than $800. Marketed in slightly different models by Radio Shack, NEC and Olivetti, the machine was an instant hit. Hewlett-Packard and Epson have already introduced "laptops" that boast even more advanced features, and Data General is set to launch a machine next week that shows 25 lines of text...
...Juanita Hollands, 38, a bookkeeper at Radio Shack, the fever arrived with the flame. "It didn't seem real to me until I saw the torch," she said from her place in a ticket line. "Now I want to go to every event." It seemed that the only lines in town were for Olympic tickets; officials said they had already surpassed their $90 million projection by $30 million, and that sales were at 80%, compared with 62% in Montreal...