Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsible and probably the best journalism has been practiced in this nation's suburbs and small towns. We have to face our readers every day. It would do wonders for the editors of the media giants, including TIME, to meet their subjects and their subscribers in the coffee shop after their publication hits the streets...
...competition among athletes upon a different country every four years. And, after a few decades, viewers around the globe will no doubt become more familiar with the intricacies of Swiss banking than is necessary. But given the current mess and assuming a desire to save the Games, setting up shop near the Alps may prove to be a decent compromise solution. Besides, in the end, the location of the Olympics is irrelevant. If we'd just leave them alone, the athletes could create enough of a spectacle to make everyone content...
...that, though they sell the troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
Ever since Harbin's newspaper began to publish stories about him, Bai has become a local celebrity. He smiles ruefully as he describes how scores of young people have walked into his shop just to meet him. "Some ask me for advice," he says. "Some ask me to teach them, some show an interest in my life." Bai has also received more than 300 fan letters, including a few marriage proposals...
...ring at all? Or you get a busy signal when you know the line isn't busy? Or that the phones themselves, which never used to break down, now break down? And nobody will fix them, unless you dismantle them and send them-by mail!-to some repair shop in West Nowhere. And the prices keep going up: 25? or even 30?, soon, for a local call from a booth...