Word: opening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spends six or seven days a week there, 52 weeks a year. Often the owners are the shop's only employees, working 12 hours a day and worrying the rest. In spite of their labor, roughly a third of these small proprietorships go bankrupt within a year after they open and another third closes within five years. The mom-and-pop merchants try again and again, however, anxious to feed, clothe and bejewel us in order to nurse their infant stores along, maybe hoping that their progeny will remember the favor and take care of them when they retire...
RUSSELL LONG usually barges into Senate hearings as if he were entering a red-neek Southern bar. Last year, he swung open the doors to a House-Senate conference drawling, "I hope it won't give anyone a brain hemmorage to hear a new idea." Well Long has just come up with a new one that's bound to give Americans more than a nose bleed. He has gotten together with Al Ullman--the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee--to propose a value added tax (VAT) which could drastically change the American tax system...
Desperately, he pried open the dead animal's ripped skin, and plunged his hands into the bear's steamy entrails. He felt warm...
...given time and proper direction. There's talent on that Winthrop stage, but it has not yet been polished into a presentable production. The actors all have their lines down; now it's time to start working on delivery and blocking. Perhaps they should go back into rehearsal and open again in April...
While the Boston Garden crowd--generously estimated at 3000--buzzed with amazement last night at Harvard's surprisingly strong performance against the University of Texas, the participants, on both sides, voiced open disappointment...