Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tommy himself did nothing in particular to mark the occasion; he opened up shop at 6:30 a.m. in his seven-day-a-week routine, served breakfast, and left in the early afternoon. But one five-year employee caught a hint of emotion when he watched his boss pose for photographers...
Edward B. Childes, a shop steward at the Adams House dining hall, said earlier this week that students should be entitled to sick days and pay on union holidays, for which they are not currently eligible. James H. Neil, a shop steward at Lowell, added that dining hall managers can currently send students home if they are not needed on a day they are scheduled to work
...search for used books. Several stores carry second-hand texts, including the Coop itself, which buys books being used in the current semester from students at 50 percent of the original price. Harvard Book Store sells used editions at a 25 percent discount and the Starr Book Shop on Bow St. sells books at 40 to 60 percent off. The selection is limited in all three cases, but Harvard Book Store offers a good supply of Penguin Books, and the Starr carries a wide selection of "classic scholarly books in all fields," according to one salesman...
Another common source of supplies for students is the HSA candystore in the Freshman Union. Like Store 24, this shop draws customers on the basis of convenience and charges prices well above the competition. However, Peter J. Quartararo '83, the HSA shop manager, maintains that his organization does not make large profits, but has to pay more to wholesalers because it orders in such small quantities...
Tapping golf balls across a green a couple of years back, Jim Flood, 49, flipped his putter around, swung a few times and achieved pleasant results. The president and chief tinkerer of a San Diego-based golf-equipment firm retired to his shop and emerged with the Basakwerd, a putter with a head that points toward the body. It demands a square stroke of the ball that literally forces the player to use a textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game...