Word: stored
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...mean, I probably have more reason to think about this stuff than the average John Q. All Too Public. A few years ago, for instance, after I applied for a credit card at a consumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. That somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it with steely digital dispatch. (I filed a short report over the phone. I never lost a cent...
...musings, in "Me Tarzan, You Minivan," that men like sport-utility vehicles while women prefer minivans are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing [ESSAY, Aug. 4]. What Ferguson did get right is that very few SUVs ever perform any task more rugged than driving to the grocery store or picking up kindergartners. But to set up minivans vs. SUVs as a female-male battleground is an exercise in blowing hot air. Ferguson needs to look at the SUV in the lane next to him. The driver is probably not Tarzan at all--it's Jane! MARY L. DODGE Lynchburg...
Imagine the discount she's going to get at Harrods now. According to the British papers--and a newly prosperous Italian paparazzo--Princess Diana has a new man. He is Dodi Fayed, a fabulously wealthy playboy-producer type whose father Mohamed al Fayed owns the famous store. The photographer's pictures of the two looking cozy on Fayed's yacht surfaced on the eve of Diana's departure for Bosnia to continue her campaign against land mines...
...sure, everybody's concerned," said John T. Sweeny at the Princeton Store. "We anticipated the strike and had many of our books shipped in July." But Sweeny still predicts that about 10 percent of his store's books may be out of stock when school starts at Princeton on Sept...
National publishing and college store associations have asked President Clinton to intervene in the strike, which he has refused to do. The Associations of American Publishers has asked Clinton to direct postal workers to give the delivery of educational materials special attention...