Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez was a new man to the liquor business, and an old timer cracked, "He should have put his best whisky on the back of the shelf." Gonzalez still has not made up his losses, but he has learned to pen in his bottles with wire...
What went wrong? Inflation, principally-and poor planning for it. Printing and paper costs rose; prices were passed on to the consumer. But in a high-volume business, where the shelf life of a book is measured in days, the average $2.25 per paperback could no longer be considered an impulse-buying item. The result: of the 900 million paperbacks shipped last year, nearly one-third were unsold. The paperback recession was echoed in the diminishing rewards to writers. Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift brought $313,000 back in 1975, but The Dean's December earned...
...student nurse's eyes are wet when she talks about how frightened she becomes. Most of the beds in the hospital have no mattresses. The toilets are outside. In the kitchen, blackened by smoke, a cracked plastic plate with an "Alliance for Progress" logo lies on a shelf among mouse droppings and rotting grains of rice. On the wall of a nearby building, huge white letters shout: DEATH TO RED PRIESTS. On other walls are the red and white graffiti of the guerrillas...
...continue to release books of poetry-more than 400 a year in the U.S. That number is swelled by vanity presses and duplicating or mimeograph machines. Almost no one makes money in the process. New poetry volumes are not piled up by cash registers; some stores even begrudge them shelf space. Yet the situation is not as dismal as it seems. Poets continue to write, and persistent readers continue to find them. Promising new voices speak out; others fulfill earlier promises. This season offers five books that are worth tracking down...
...intern-friend scanned the menu--a decaying chalk-board with a few scrawlings on it--and finally asked for a Tab and a tuna-fish sandwich. The counterman produced an old can of tuna from the back of a shelf under the grill and spilled some Pepsi into a highball glass...