Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burglar's tools. The next day a longtime friend of Smith's, Harold Jones Jr., a librarian for a Philadelphia high school, was arrested leaving Smith's house with several pounds of marijuana. Subsequently, another county charged Smith with stealing $53,000 from a Sears, Roebuck store last year...
...have been moving into cards and checks on a nationwide scale argue that they have been forced to do so in self-defense, claiming they have lost a lot of consumer credit business since World War II to other loan suppliers, including not only the card firms but department-store charge accounts and the auto-finance subsidiaries of the car companies. Insists a top bank executive: "There is no war going on. That would imply that someone must win and someone must lose." But there surely will be a lot of bruising...
WASTE DISPOSAL. Nuclear plants store most of their wastes, which average about 30 tons of spent fuel rods, in water-filled "swimming pools" on the plant premises. But many of these pools, intended to provide only temporary storage, are almost filled, and the wastes are piling...
...Jimmy Carter is a prime example--he doesn't owe anything to anybody. There aren't barons anymore, there's a huge public mass and nobody is tending the store...
STILL AS OLSEN goes on to point out, writing requires much more than just this "homely underpinning." A "conviction as to the importance of what one has to say, one's right to say it. And the will, the measureless store of belief in oneself to be able to come to cleave to, find the form for one's own life comprehensions" is also essential. To have that kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person...