Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the author's experience is the vicarious quest for material and a hard-boiled persona. He becomes knowledgeable about firearms by reading about them; he familiarizes himself with the latest in sex toys by researching them at a Frankfurt porno shop. But his education in cardiology is firsthand. "In the seventh year of the Reagan kakistocracy, the medical dyes shooting through my arterial freeways were forced to make a detour around a major obstruction," he writes with calculated self-mockery...
...Customers in New York, New Jersey and California lost service when phone lines were sabotaged. In Van Nuys, Calif., two striking Pacific Bell employees suffered injuries when they were bumped by cars crossing the picket lines. The drivers "got angry because we called them scabs," claimed Marisa Rotondi, a shop steward for the local union. "Things are starting to get pretty bad out here...
...through a technique called stock parking. They arranged to sell some securities at a loss and then repurchase them at the same or slightly higher prices. The party ended one wintry day in 1987, when 50 federal marshals burst into the firm's offices, situated above a Haagen-Dazs shop in Princeton, N.J., and confiscated 255 boxes of company records and 336 hours of taped phone conversations...
...opportunity to spend informal time with your peers at other institutions and just talk shop with them on your own terms without the pressure of work is impossible to put a value on," Baden says...
...NOTES by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence; $16.95). There is no better conversation than good shop talk; here a petroleum geologist ("I know how to find oil") tells many of the tricks of his trade and proves, in the process, that he also knows how to write...