Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Home-town pride produces a civic-mindedness that borders on the obsessive. In the Potrero Hill neighborhood, a builder wants to put up some stores on a pizza shop's back lot. A petition drive and local media brouhaha have deterred...
...Stone. The young man who yanks the steel out of the rock turns out, of course, to be our Michael, and the lasers reflecting off the blade into the far reaches of the stadium make him look for a moment like a dashboard saint from a head shop. This prologue is dramatic, funny and, at the end, nicely self-mocking. Spoilsports might argue that it does not have a great deal to do with the music, but then-along with cameras, alcoholic beverages and recording devices-spoilsports are not welcome at the Victory Tour. All those congenial security guards will...
...bitter resentment among American workers. Says Edward Sesma, 33, who is being laid off this week from his job as a forklift driver at a San Diego tuna cannery: "You only have to look a few miles across the border to Mexico to notice all the companies setting up shop there to take advantage of cheap costs. It's terrible...
...blocked by a lawsuit and a lobbying blitz from auto dealers. The FTC now explains that the requirement would have Used cars in New York City been unhelpful to consumers because used-car dealers are often unaware of mechanical problems. The decision means that consumers will continue to shop for used cars the old-fashioned way, by kicking the tires and hoping for the best...
MOST KIDS know the feeling that from walking into a candy shop and being taken by the multitude of sweets. The immediate impulse is to scurry out and tell your friends all about it. One gets much the same feeling from reading Lords Ladies and Gentlemen, the memoirs of Clifton Daniel. Daniel acts the adult equivalent of the kid in the candy shop as a name dropper of the first order...