Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelf is part of a Cambridge Public Library project to extend its services to even the busiest of business folks. Located on the inbound platform near the escalators, the case is a little library for people who want something to do while they commute...
...graffitti was scrawled over a bookshelf in the station--a shelf that is also the only unsupervised public library in the country. There is no librarian, no checkout, no catalog. Passengers may take books off the shelf at any time, read them, and return them at their convenience...
...that third period, Providence began to take control. Linstad tapped in a goal from the doorstep after White made three point-blank saves; Heather LaDuke put a slapshot in the top shelf, and then Linstad banked her third goal off the top of White's shoulder to put the game out of reach...
Cohen credits the committee with having traced the arms-sales money, something neither the Tower commission nor the Senate intelligence committee was able to do. He notes that the committee discovered the "off-the-shelf" covert operations directed by North and revealed the extent of Administration efforts to fund the contras after Congress had refused further...
Book publishing was relatively late in adopting the flummery of mass marketing. But rising costs, corporate takeovers and the short shelf life of new titles at the book chains have accelerated the conversion of authors into fashionable commodities. This is especially true for writers who can be plugged into the latest trends. Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt and other young novelists who currently rouse the bid-lust of Manhattan publishers were raised on pseudo events. Particularly flamboyant evidence of this can be seen in the self-promotions of their colleague Tama Janowitz, author of Slaves of New York...