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...Reagan proposal has garnered support from several influential groups, notably the National Conference of Black Mayors. Says Elijah Anderson, associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania: "The stakes are so high, we can't afford not to try it." The F.W. Woolworth chain, which now employs upwards of 2,500 teens as custodians, cashiers and stock clerks, says it could add more workers if labor costs were lower. Remarks Audrey Freedman, a labor economist for the Conference Board, a Manhattan research group: "Maybe we'll see young theater ushers showing us to our seats again, or supermarket baggers...
...life of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton (seven marriages, lavish escapades, hints of insanity) was chronicled as it happened, in gossip columns. A new biography of Hutton is also being talked about in the columns, but this time the whispers involve the writer and publisher, not the subject...
While the pair has since retired they've left their mark on the computer game market-more than 450 of their programs are on sale at stores such as Sears K-Mart and Woolworth...
...meager dreams of Funk, and his fellow rats, might seen ludicrous, but they are not to be laughed at. Perhaps Funk is the progenitor of the next evolutionary stage of mankind--Home Mallus, a deevolved species whose horizons are no longer than the distance from Woolworth's to Orange Julius...
Since the mid '70s, the commercial district surrounding Harvard has undergone drastic changes. Rents in the largely traditional, somewhat antiquated shopping area have skyrocketed; a number of the older shops, like the Mandrake Bookstore, have been forced to relocate to less expensive properties; the neighborhood Woolworth's remembered nostalgically by countless are residents, closed recently to make way-for-The Gap. In general, the trend has been to draw in national chains-like Pizzeria Uno and The Gap at the expense of independent, uniquely flavored shops...