Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of U.S. gas stations and auto salvagers are doing the same. They are installing so-called junk oil furnaces that utilize an idea pioneered 17 years ago by a West German garage owner, Walter Kroll, who developed a waste oil burner to save on heating costs for his shop...
...ever been in Iran during the past regime, particularly in its later years, he would have seen how even in the remotest villages, the single tiny shop carried all the basic medicines--at unbelievably low prices, the government paid two-thirds of the price. He would have seen the government hospitals and clinics found in every small town. He would have seen that in late 1978 the price of bread, tea, sugar, and other basic necessities was the same as 15 years before, because the government picked up three-fourths...
...unobtrusive; more than 16,000 of its soldiers had encircled the capital. The Russian presence did not sit at all well with most Afghans. Before the invasion, the poor, illiterate, devoutly Muslim people of Kabul's mud-flecked Old Quarter routinely invited foreigners to take tea in their shop stalls. Now they assumed that all unfamiliar foreigners were Russian and thus to be glared at coldly and jostled. The Soviets were understandably wary. At least 30 soldiers had been murdered in the streets since the coup. The most common form of attack was for enraged bands of teen-agers...
Below, Ahlstrom describes a recent experiment that has gone beyond its Swedish predecessors and the role of shop-floor democracy within what he calls a "truly democratic society...
This means that in addition to the political powers they have through their voting rights and their political organizations, they should also be able to participate in the decision-making in the workplace. They must be able to influence company decisions at all levels, from the shop floor to the board room...