Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform. Without fundamentally violating Communist orthodoxy, some experts believe, Gierek might be able to promise a degree of worker participation in decision-making on the factory level. Kremlinologist Simes feels that certain concessions could safely be made in the area of labor organization?free trade unions at the shop level, for example, but no factory-or industry-wide unions. No matter the forms, stresses Eastern Europe Scholar Mastny, "Gierek must be able to reassert the political monopoly of the Communist Party...
Instead, chronic complainers all, they blame Edward Gierek and the Soviets and tell bitter jokes to relieve the frustration. Like the one about the old woman who hobbles into a butcher shop and asks first for pork roast, then for lamb, then for veal. On being told that there is none, she storms out. "What a nuisance," gripes the first butcher. "Maybe," replies the second, "but what a memory...
...after release to get steady jobs. All twelve of the ex-cons who worked for the computer company at Stillwater have parlayed their skills into similar jobs on the outside. In hopes of achieving comparable results, Massachusetts has closed down its flag-sewing operation in favor of a microfilm shop. Some experts caution that this approach can backfire. Jack Schaller, president of the American Institute of Criminal Justice in Philadelphia, maintains that ex-cons often do not want to pursue activities that remind them of their days behind bars. If a prisoner worked in the print shop, says Schaller...
...tough to sell, but the consumer is motivated to buy if it is an item of real value." The American customer is currently digging out of debt and is very careful about how he spends his money, but he is also again beginning to cast a curious eye toward shop windows...
...from Paris. The parvenu, John Casablancas, had owned the biggest model agency in Paris and for years enjoyed an uneasy working relationship with "Godmother" Eileen Ford, trading les girls between continents as occasion and opportunity demanded. Then, in 1977, despite an unwritten agreement that he would not set up shop in the U.S., Casablancas descended on Manhattan. He promptly aggravated the assault by raiding some of Ford's most toothsome stars-10s or near 10s all-as well as some of her key operational executives...