Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When his supervisor suggested he stock up on waterbed patches, Greg Higgins, manager of Store 24, thought the man was crazy. But then Higgins reflected and realized that "when someone needs a waterbed patch, he really needs it," so he invested in a small shelf's worth. Sure enough, a couple of months later a woman came into the store at 2 a.m., looked around and exclaimed, "Oh, my God--you have them!" To Higgin's stupefaction, she bought two packages of patches. "How often does she expect the thing to get punctured?" he remembers wondering...
...products sell like Milano cookies. Most night regulars have never seen anyone buy one of the stuffed Pink Panthers that line the windows and the tops of shelf displays, though Higgins maintains he sells four or five a day and at least one $42 biggie a week. Greeting cards with odd motifs, off-color and downright obscene novelty buttons, shirts that say "Harvard University: A Tradition of Men in Exciting Positions," electric hot-pots, and toothbrushes also sell briskly...
Librarians from each school could vie to find books on the reserve shelf fastest; dining hall workers could compete to see which school produces the better meal (it's all relative) and serve it most efficiently...
...NATO. Here is a unique problem: we belong to NATO, but this alliance refused to guarantee our frontiers [against Turkish attack]. Turkey has made many claims on operational control of the eastern Aegean, on the continental shelf, on control of air space. Many times Turkish leaders have even hinted that islands of the eastern Aegean are not necessarily Greek. We have to maintain a high level of readiness and modernize our armed forces. This costs us enormously when we should be spending our resources on education, health and development...
Galatia lies on the eastern edge of the Illinois basin, a 25 million-acre, spoon-shaped, subterranean shelf of coal that has made the state the nation's fourth largest producer. For almost a century now, the basin has been union turf. While only 44% of all U.S. coal is dug by members of the United Mine Workers of America, down from 70% a decade ago, some 99% of Illinois coal is union mined. The legendary John L. Lewis rose to the presidency of the U.M.W. as a legislative lobbyist from the union's Illinois District 12, which...