Word: shopped
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Some other such moves are afoot. The President last week unveiled his plan to create over the next three years up to 75 "enterprise zones" in blighted areas. The idea is to revitalize decaying neighborhoods by offering generous tax breaks to employers who set up shop there and hire disadvantaged residents. Dropped from this job-stimulus proposal was an early suggestion that employers in these zones might be allowed to pay subminimum wages and gain exemption from health and safety regulations, two ideas that are favored by some conservatives but might have cost support in Congress...
...long ago, a bad spring seemed in the offing too. The landlord of one shop wanted to raise Basile's rent from $300 a month to about $350. Basile is a businessman; Landlord Richard Gerrity is a businessman; businessmen compromise. Says Gerrity: "Creativity is important." Thus he gave his negotiator a single, unorthodox instruction: "Get the most number of sandwiches that you possibly...
...main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire to resist the Israeli soldiers who have to be sent in to remove them The picture that emerges from Halabi...
Downtown Hollister could be mistaken for a Trailways comfort stop. Diagonal parking off San Benito Street allows pickup-truck owners to park comfortably and shop at shabby stores with dusty windows. Normally San Benito Street is dark by 9 o'clock, except for the glare of neon from car dealerships and fast-food kiosks. Two blocks away, in a tree-shaded neighborhood of modest bungalows, is the new county administration building. The old building, a Victorian pile put up in 1886, was destroyed in 1961. You guessed it: an earthquake and 400 aftershocks did the damage...
...Coming Currency Collapse and What to Do About It. Cheery statistics of last year can no longer hide the sober economic facts of 1982: higher costs, escalating book prices and dwindling profits. "I haven't seen times like this before," confesses William McCarthy, buyer for the 20-shop chain of Kroch's & Brentano's bookstores in the Chicago area. "The book business is being hit by everything at once: a soft economy, cost increases and an uncertain audience...