Word: stores
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...against these negative currents, fortunately, is the persistent, fundamental strength of the U.S. economy. The trend in wages and employment, which wield far more influence over consumer confidence and spending than stock prices, remains strong. As she placed a tortilla warmer in her shopping cart last week at a store in Nashville, Tenn., Sue Allison, 53, a public relations officer for the Tennessee supreme court, observed that "there are a million people out tonight spending $90 on nothing, just as I am. My husband and I won't touch [our retirement stocks] for at least 15 years...
...slow to have caused structural damage. Even more encouraging, the geometry of SOHO's orbit was tilting the craft's axis of rotation toward the sun by about a degree a day. That was gradually increasing the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels. Ground controllers ordered SOHO to store that intermittent flow of energy and recharge its batteries...
...transition period between the summer and the school year in which to settle in, get reacquainted with one another and our Cambridge surroundings and prepare for the rigors of fall. By the time classes began, students would no longer need to be trekking to storage or to the hardware store for dorm room supplies...
...film won't be simply a colorized version of the old one. Costumes and sets have been given a '90s touch. The famed Bates Motel, made more Martha Stewart gothic than Herman Munster Victorian, now accepts the Discover card. In one hardware-store scene a Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this...
...substances mentioned in your story about the use of performance boosters by bicyclists in the Tour de France [MEDICINE, Aug. 10], creatine is not a drug, and its use is not illegal. It is a nutritional supplement that is available over the counter at almost every nutrition store. Pfanstiehl Laboratories has been manufacturing synthetic high-purity creatine since 1961. We know of no amateur or professional sport in which the use of creatine is banned. Athletes use synthetic creatine to supplement their bodies' natural production of it, increase strength and extend their peak performance. GEORGE HOLSTEIN, President Pfanstiehl Laboratories...