Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while I thought I might have a story on the the subject of the world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...
...expanded far beyond its traditional base in the suburbs. The company has built more than 50 outlets on U.S. military bases, five on university campuses and one at a public zoo. At St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, where a McDonald's outlet has replaced the coffee shop, doctors and nurses line up for burgers between rounds. The company has even developed a McDonald's small enough to fit in virtual cracks in the wall: McSnack. These tiny stands, three so far, have been installed in locations too cramped for a regular McDonald's, and offer shortened menus and limited...
Since a new Bud Light beer commercial first flickered on prime-time television during January's Super Bowl, America has been going to the dogs -- bull terriers, that is. Bud's campaign stars Spuds MacKenzie, bull terrier and bon vivant. Suddenly, pet-shop customers are pursuing pups like Spuds, which fetch prices up to $1,200 apiece. "Everywhere I go now, it's 'I want a Spuds dog,' " reports Evelin Jackson, executive secretary of the Bull Terrier Club of America. Inquiries are up 75% at Jerry's Perfect Pet Shop in Dallas. Customers in St. Louis are so bullish that...
That line, however, gets an immediate and sharp rebuttal inside his own shop. "If we have a trade war with Japan, we're in bad shape," says Young's partner, John Denomme, 35. "We almost totally rely on Japanese hardware to play our software. Nearly every component in home audio and video systems is manufactured in Japan. If the Japanese decided they were going to make it difficult for everybody else, they could." Denomme is far from comfortable with that situation. In fact he finds Japanese economic power "frightening." Nonetheless, he is dead set against protectionism: "What good...
Unlike a certain fellow actor turned politician, Eastwood has had a pretty good year. Of course, the scale of his achievements is a tad more modest. Eastwood pushed for a new parking lot to ease congestion during the annual plague of tourists, and he has allowed a local shop to sell ice-cream cones, a commodity the previous regime restricted. Says Mike Lajigian, who owns Chocolate Dreams and dispenses 22 flavors at $1.50 and up: "He's cut through the bureaucracy and still maintained the integrity of the village...