Word: stores
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...sunny October afternoon, the normally teeming streets of the fashionable district of Nisantasi are oddly quiet. The occasional tourist couple wanders by. Behind elegant windows advertising new autumn collections, plush stores like Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton and Armani are empty. Groups of sales attendants hover nervously by the entrance. "Business is terrible," says the director of one popular U.S. luxury label. "We hoped it would pick up after Ramadan, but it hasn't. Nobody wants to lose face by officially going on sale in October because it's unheard of, but in-store most labels are offering...
...Francisco’s back yard” had in store...
...People need somewhere else to go, and that cannot be Central Square.” Reeves described seeing unfamiliar people pushing shopping carts full of blankets around Central Square recently and congregating around city benches for hours at a time. He also recounted reports of illegal behavior, specifically from store owners who have told him there is prostitution in the area. In April, the city announced that the 2008 homelessness census showed a 10 percent increase in the number of people without homes in Cambridge. The upswing in local homelessness coincides with a wider state trend. The Associated Press reports...
...director Sam Helfrich presents a world that, like the acting, is never really sure what it’s supposed to be. He puts Agathe in a traditional German dirndl while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space...
...message to politicians. While the strength and comprehensiveness of Power Vote’s platform remain quite compelling, the inclusion of nuclear energy on its list of “dirty” energy gives reason for pause. Given the current state of technology—our inability to store nuclear waste, for example—relying on nuclear energy is environmentally irresponsible, just as Power Vote maintains. Still, if technology improves in the future, allowing us to store or dispose of nuclear waste in a safe and responsible manner, nuclear energy should be developed and utilized as a clean...