Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton's 1992 campaign manager David Wilhelm said, "Dole's campaign is a textbook of things that have gone wrong...
...Books. Discounting the relatively pathetic selection offered on its two lower floors, the Coop is still heralded as the textbook king (a.k.a. monopolist textbook hoarder). Why? Harvard gives the Coop a monopoly on the needed texts for all of its classes, except when the professor chooses to purchase elsewhere. Wouldn't it make sense to supply reading lists and class enrollments to all the local bookstores so that students would benefit from price competition...
Whether players read the playbook like a textbook or not, everyone has at least one hour of meetings per day listening to coaches analyze tape and watching them diagram plays on the board...
...Coop generally carries only one version of a required textbook for a course, while other book-stores often carry multiple editions of popular titles, some cheaper than the edition available at the Coop...
...September rolls around in Boston, businesses greedily await the return of students to campus. And I'm not just talking about the textbook monopolists over at our beloved Coop. While students always plunk down a few dollars here and there for pens and pencils, many also find it useful to make an investment in a computer. The vast majority of first-year students are looking for a computer to take care of their word processing needs for the next four years. And an increasing number of upperclass students are discarding their older machines like summer clothing; buying new notebook...