Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply speedy service and knowledgeable staff that have brought on such robust health. Variety of stock is another major factor. For example, a reader can find John Irving's latest novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, among the 15,000 or so titles typically carried by a chain store, but in all likelihood will not locate Irving's earlier books. Chain stores need fast turnover; they have little space for backlisted books. By contrast, a shop like Manhattan's Shakespeare & Co., which carries 64,000 titles, will stock practically the entire Irving oeuvre...
...owner Andy Ross, demonstrating the proper passion. "We carry Thomas Mann! We have all of Dickens!" Ross sued two mass-market % publishers who, he claimed, discriminated against him by giving unfair discounts to chains. He won an out-of-court settlement but still argues that chains, with their narrow stock of titles and widespread outlets, "limit the availability of ideas in our culture...
...Field may seem an odd place to find one of the nation's best cookbook stores, but Season has scored in the now fashionable neighborhood with butcher-block decor and tomes on food and drink, including esoteric offerings such as one on Transylvanian cuisine. Everyone seems hungry for the stock. "Some people collect cookbooks as art," says co-owner Barry Bluestein. "Some see them as sociological studies of what people were eating in different times and places, and some just ask, 'Is this a good read...
BUSINESS: The stock market posts its worst loss since the '87 crash as Friday the 13th stirs panic on Wall Street...
...faltering buyout of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, combines with signs of a new burst of inflation to put stock prices into a spin. The drop rekindles concerns that a debt-laden era might be coming to grief and provokes fears of a bearish season ahead...