Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed by a sound truck blurting the locally popular tune "Southie, My Home Town." Boston Mayor Kevin White did not march, but Gov. Michael Dukakis did, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 never showed despite his announced intention to participate. He is probably lucky he stayed away--bars, shop windows and lapels bore little good will for the man whose family name is uttered with reverence by most Irish-Americans outside the Boston area...
...Garden at 8 pm. Iggy Pop at the Harvard Square Theater Saturday at 8, and you already know about Bowie playing piano for him. This entire penultimate graf, which was supposed to contain a really clevel "tag" line, you can assume to have been Blown off in the Shop. Blown off in the Shop. And that's always REALLY funny...
...millions of American autos. Even so, there is something new: after 20 years of steady but unspectacular growth, the sales and profits of Midas-International Corp. have suddenly taken off on a heady flight. Last December Midas, which franchises independent muffler installers, opened in Phoenix its 900th muffler shop. The company has also been diversifying to become a force in the burgeoning market for recreational vehicles-campers, trailers and motor homes. Last year Midas reported $225 million in sales, a 39% increase, to its corporate parent, IC Industries, Inc., the company that owns the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. Midas...
...chief executive, a former Purdue University football star, began an aggressive program of international expansion. When he assumed command, Midas' only operation outside the U.S. consisted of a handful of muffler outlets in Canada. Now Midas has shops in eight foreign countries, and Weiger expects up to 25% of its muffler outlets to be overseas by 1985. In order to service the increasing number of foreign cars coming to the U.S., Weiger plunked down $2.5 million for a new, more efficient plant outside Chicago. There, original mufflers and tail pipes from American and foreign cars are redesigned by Midas...
These alterations include the construction of a new dining addition to the South House dining hall that can also be used as a theater in South House; the opening of a coffee shop in Hilles Library; the construction of new student and tutor suites at North House; the extension of the Hilles Library hours; and the opening of Currier House art and woodworking facilities to all Quad residents...