Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every community should have full compulsory education from kindergarten to eighth, as well as courses for the gifted, normal and exceptional. From then on education should be voluntary, with one school for liberal arts and one or more for vocational, trade, shop or agriculture, depending on the community needs...
...tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns; one last week cheekily examined the rich man's version of the box radios so popular with street people. The new page even has a rather tepid corporate gossip column called "Shop Talk" (who is on the fast track at General Motors and similar tidbits). Despite a year's preparation, the first week of the second front did not give readers a clear idea of what kinds of stories to expect...
Other Floridian hosts are also happy. Some hotels that normally close down for the summer now wave the Union Jack; the Saxony has converted its coffee shop to a teahouse where a full contingent of Brits can also have a $2.75 fish-and-chips lunch. Some visitors are developing a taste for bagels, but once kosher menus now feature bangers and mash (sausages and mashed potatoes). The Miami News has added a "News from Britain" section and has slapped the British ensign on its vending machines. Dart boards are sprouting like bougainvillea. Rivers of Guinness and Watney's pour...
...years ago and sold it at $600. He owns a home on the French Riviera and part of an island off Sweden. He has diamond interests, a wide range of bonds and other securities, apartment and office buildings in the U.S., a tennis shop in Monte Carlo managed by bis parents. He is also looking for a home in Florida, where he feels he may some day want to retire...
There is the matter of theft. Auto parts are so scarce that the wise driver removes such tempting features as windshield wipers and side-view mirrors whenever he parks on the street. Even when the Soviet motorist leaves his car in the shop he must take care, for his auto may be stripped of items needed to repair other cars. A favorite Soviet axiom: "Your car comes out of the shop with fewer parts than it went in with...