Word: bazaar
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...oldtime salesman gave way to mere order-takers, who sold only on the basis of price. And since the "list price" often differs widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because the retailer demands it. The retailer says he must have it because the customer wants to believe he has been given...
Even the world's sharp-eyed buyers, no wasters of emotion, though they loved Dior, rose as one to give Saint-Laurent a standing ovation. "One of the great Dior collections," exulted Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman. Said astute Marie-Louise Bousquet, Harper's Bazaar's oldest Paris hand: "If the colossus of Dior had crumbled, it would have shaken French fashion to its foundations...
...widened, which buildings demolished, which squares enlarged, and where new roads are to run. Some months ago, during a diplomatic trip to Baghdad, Turkey's Premier rose in the middle of the night to dispatch a cable to Istanbul: "Have decided to tear down house opposite Spice Bazaar at Eminonu Square. Proceed with expropriation...
...preparation for the 1957 elections, Menderes banned all political meetings except at campaign time-a law that was interpreted so strictly that Republican Party Leader Kasim Gulek was arrested for shaking hands with well-wishers in a village bazaar. (As publisher of the newspaper Ulus, Gulek estimates that he now has 150 editorial and political charges currently pending against him.) And less than two months before election day, the Democratic majority in the Grand National Assembly passed a bill prohibiting any coalition among the three chief opposition parties...
Aiun is a capital of unpaved streets and adobe buildings, lacking proper port facilities, adequate airstrip or water supply for 15,000 Spanish soldiers. In its bazaar, tribesmen selling their beads and hammered silver listen to Arab-language broadcasts from Rabat, just as Moroccans before independence tuned in Cairo. In the surrounding countryside, the Spanish have pulled their garrisons out of many tiny outposts into four desert fortresses...