Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still not used to it. If a kid came to my store and asked me for a "Reggie," I think I'd probably hang him up by his underwear like they used to do to me at summer camp...
...stood precisely at a point where all traffic meets, and stood there enjoying the quiet. But that was my only opportunity to stand there. Suddenly, as if to remind me of what was in store, a car came sailing on the snow and the driver asked that I move to the side...
...found a 11,110,100,001,001,000,000-dollar baby in a 101-and 1010-cent store is the translation into binary of I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store...
...although not television) display imaginative and colorful ads urging consumers to buy a myriad of goods, from baby powder to air mattresses. To the rare visitors from the Soviet Union, most of this is unbelievable. One Russian, gazing into a Budapest show window, could not believe that the department store was state-owned (it is). "It's impossible," he said. "These things are too beautiful. Besides, there are no queues...
...hidden form of wage and price controls, pure and simple." Barry Bosworth, President Carter's chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, complains that the Okun plan would require a whole new bureaucratic machinery and floods of forms: "It is too much control for the corner grocery store...