Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Pochapin says that " September is the Coop's Christmas" because of the back-to-school book rush, the Christmas season comes in a close second and draws a lot of members who don't shop there on a regular basis...
Heaney is the best-selling poet at the Grober Bookstore on Plympton St., said Louise Salano, the shop's owner. "What's amazing is that he's so damn good" as well as being popular, she added...
When Socialite Lilly Pulitzer started selling flower-splattered print dresses in a Palm Beach, Fla., shop in 1962, her designs quickly caught the fancy of wealthy matrons from Bel Air, Calif., to Bar Harbor, Me. Pulitzer's trademark pink-and-green styles became the epitome of preppiedom and led to the opening of 33 boutiques across the country. But after nearly two decades of cachet, Pulitzer has fallen out of style and into the red. Last week her company, which had sales of more than $10 million a year in its heyday, filed for bankruptcy in order to receive...
Started in 1973 by Feulner and Paul Weyrich, who now heads a conservative political-action committee, Heritage is currently the hot shop in the public policy industry. In contrast with the liberal Brookings Institution and conservative American Enterprise Institute, which encourage scholars to produce thoroughgoing reports at their own pace, Heritage expects its researchers to study topical questions, work on tight deadlines and strive to get their results noticed or, better yet, acted upon. New studies are hand-delivered to every Cabinet officer and member of Congress. The names and specialties of 1,500 congressional aides, 700 Executive Branch staffers...
Ingrid L. Ott '83 was exploring a mainland China village with a 6-ft., 2-in, red-haired friend. Her friend found a pair of shorts with a design similar to Hawaiian tourist shorts in a small shop for 25 cents, and liked them so much that he put them on immediately. When they left the shop and started walking down the street, a huge crowd of Chinese people followed them, laughing uncontrollably. Ott said that she had no idea if she or her friend was the object of ridicule...