Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metamorphose into a permanent committee on academic policy.) And over the summer, the Ed School will move into its red-brick Roy E. Larsen Tower, which features "department centers" on each floor. The centers--already christened "water holes"--include kitchenettes, and large windows; they are designed to encourage informal shop talk...
Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...
Blasted hardest of all were junkyard owners, who sent their own representatives, tried desperately to defend themselves by defining their roadside eyesores as "a retail automobile-dismantling shop engaged in a business that is neither dishonest nor degrading." Harvard Law School Professor Charles Haar snapped back, "The only way to clean up these places is through strong legislation; voluntary actions on the part of junkyard owners are few and far between...
...might stack up on the telly at 91-56-89 (centimeters) instead of a somehow more appetizing 36-22-35 (inches). Bert and Alf will have to give up ordering a pint of mild or stout and order 'alf a liter instead, while the missus will have to shop for half a kilo of butter. And who, if he just misses being run down by a lorry, will feel like saying, "A miss is as good as 1.609 kilometers...
...problems that face U.S. companies setting up shop in Europe, one of the most perplexing is how to deal with European labor. The workers generally welcome American firms for the good working conditions and higher pay that they offer, but U.S. executives soon find that it takes more than that to get along with their European help. Not that European labor is necessarily more demanding or obstinate than U.S. labor: it is merely different. The U.S. firm that wants to make a success on the Continent cannot afford to ignore the differences...