Word: shops
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Everyone here, whether walking two blocks to shop, or traveling from Montreal to Boston, must report citizenship and whatever purchases have been made, then pay the duties. Travelers going either way never know whether they'll be asked just one or two questions, or be subjected to an extensive search of car and luggage. Customs men decide which on the basis of what a Canadian official calls "le sixième sens." In general U.S. goods are cheaper, so Canadians pay a punitive duty on them. The U.S. tries to discourage the importing of Cuban cigars and of course...
Already more than 2,000 energy-related companies have set up shop in the city. They range from one-man operations selling drilling-survey data to such giant conglomerates as Gulf, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California. Newcomers have swelled the population of the metropolitan area from 1.2 million in 1970 to 1.6 million today-including 4,000 geologists. One of the nation's fastest-growing cities, Denver has begun to rival Houston for the title of "Energy Capital, U.S.A...
...this man Hamilton Jordan know anything? somebody asked. One of the boys in one of the town's shops had declared that everybody he knew believed Jordan was real horse's ass. After a loud guffaw the consensus was that Carter might be all right, but many of those people around him were just no good. The shop man said that he would never again vote for a man who did not have experience with Congress. Around the tables ni the back of the Ideal Café there were silent nods...
...high school in the eleventh grade because he was "impatient and bored," Fraser got a job packing cork insulation around water heaters; he was fired for trying to organize a union. Later he went to work for 75? an hour at the Chrysler De Soto plant, but left the shop floor to become a union staffer in 1947 and, shortly thereafter, one of Walter Reuther's right-hand men. When Reuther died in 1970, Fraser competed closely with Leonard Woodcock for the presidency. Woodcock won a narrow majority in the U.A.W. vote board; Fraser withdrew and urged that...
...would be succeeded by Executive Vice President Rand Araskog, 47. Company flacks who a few hours earlier had been extolling Hamilton's abilities now found themselves complaining that their former skipper always seemed to be jetting off to the ends of the earth instead of managing the shop in Manhattan...