Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jamaica Plain resident and a Boston resident report that while standing in line at Rhythm and Spice at 315 Mass. Ave., they were yelled at and pushed out of the way by a store employee...
...felt like I was at a Senate confirmation hearing. This man just wouldn't stop. Any outsider could easily have seen that I was uncomfortable and not enjoying myself. The one employee had mysteriously disappeared after the phone rang, and there I was, all alone in the store with this weird man who informed the employee (when he returned) that he was my boyfriend and that I was buying him ice cream. He repeated it. The employee looked at me and then at the security guard. Meanwhile I was furiously showing my change into my wallet, fumbling because...
...armored steel Casspir rolled over the hill and began to blow up the land mines contaminating Mozambique's rich soil. Olga Haptemariam acquired it in Eritrea's war-scarred port city of Massawa when she laid down 2,000 birr for a license to open a building-supply store. The villagers of N'Tjinina are finding it as they prepare for the solemn experience of voting in Mali's first local elections. Sarah Galloway Hage-Ali is spreading hope in Ghana, where she purchased the country's sole manufacturer of sanitary napkins in 1994 and launched a feminine-hygiene crusade...
...sporting-goods retail consolidation that has claimed hundreds of stores in the U.S. The survivors, including powerful chains like the Sports Authority, complain that every store is selling the same stuff. Nike, as the biggest shoe supplier, with a 47% domestic market share, suffers most...
...government has historically done on welfare. For all Maximus' problems in the Connecticut child-care program, the state operation it took over had major flaws of its own. Three of its four child-care systems were not even computerized, which meant workers had to calculate benefits by hand and store data in folders. With all this in mind, Connecticut decided after a review last month to continue Maximus' contract and triple the amount it pays per child-care case. Welfare may be one of the few fields in which a system temporarily plagued by unpaid bills, unanswered phones and system...