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Then the situation in Boston worsened. Two power blackouts cut off electricity for 100,000 people at the height of the storm. In some working-class neighborhoods, looting broke out. Long lines formed at the few food markets that could open, and shelves were quickly stripped bare of milk, bread...
Coors, the fabled company in Golden, Colo., that was on a Rocky Mountain high for years also declined in 1977, from 13.7 million bbls. to 12.8 million. Part of the drop was due to a bitter strike that led to a customer boycott; it has been particularly damaging in California...
Exhibits-section employees painted the house annually. They also built a front portico, dug a fish pond and equipped it with a pump and lights, and made shelves, telephone stands and an Oriental fruit bowl for Hoover. They repaired his air conditioners, stereo equipment, tape recorders, television sets, electric wiring...
The outburst in Denver's Mile High Stadium after the Super Bowl slot had been assured was the peaking of a fever that has raged this fall in the Rockies, leaving all of its victims colored a resonant orange. The team color has banished every other hue from the spectrum...
Consumer confidence in the economy could become a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. Many storekeepers, bitterly recalling the stockpiles they got stuck with after the recession Christmas of three years ago, bought only enough this year to cover the sales gains they expected and got. Their shelves are now cleaned...