Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several head shops in the Boston area such as the Head Shop in Central Square have already closed down Others like the Combat Smoke Shop, near the Park Street subway station in Boston, and Liberty Free in Central Square both of which are under the same management remain tentatively open...
...sign inside the Combat /one Smoke Shop proclaims "We cater orgies" The sales clerk be hind the counter will not discuss the new law saying he does not want to call public attention to any Ioopholes. This smoke shop will be one of the hardest since virtually all of its stock is the kind of paraphernalia that has been outlawed...
...instead of the discount close out sales one might expect the store to be holding, signs indicate increases on many products. Including rolling papers A clerk at the affiliated Liberty Tree shop in Central Square says the increasing cost of Paper makes wholesale and retail prices go up. and he adds. "Don't be surprised to see E-Z [currently $7.50] going for $30 a box after the law takes effect. As local competition decreases with each store that closes, prices can be driven higher and higher, and copies of the law clearly showing the date it takes effect...
...antihandgun sentiment in Morton Grove was latent until an entrepreneur announced last spring that he was opening a gun shop in town. That prospect galvanized the trustees. "I'm just against guns," says Sneider. "It's a deep conviction of mine." Says fellow Village Trustee Neil Cashman, who wrote the law against possession: "I was sick and tired of reading about handgun deaths." Three years ago, a pair of local teenage girls were murdered in a Morton Grove woods, both shot to death with a handgun...
...however, are now undergoing a radical transformation. The change has been brought on by the recession that has put 9.5 million Americans out of work and is expected to push the January unemployment rate above the postwar record of 9%. Faced with the wholesale loss of jobs on the shop floor or in airplane cabins, labor has made job security, not pay, its primary concern. At the same time, businesses suffering from sluggish sales have begun to bargain away some traditional management prerogatives in exchange for cuts in labor costs...