Word: chained
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Despite the store's low-impact opening, not everyone is happy with the addition of another big business chain store located in a spot where an independent business used to operate...
...seems to fit the trend, like Abercrombie & Fitch and Pacific Sunwear taking the place of the Tasty, with chain stores moving in," said Jeni Chiu, who works at the Harvard Bookstore, across Plympton St. from the new store...
...Appearing now though, within America's favorite chain stores, is a newer and more user friendly type of little plastic card. With the onset of these "Gift Cards", customers now have the luxury of using plastic to spend money they they actually do have, which other credit cards simply can't provide. The Gap, JCrew and Tower Records have all wowed their shoppers with the emergence of their own unique versions of the "Gift Card," by minimizing the onset of buyers' remorse...
...years ago; it is the grittiness and dirt of the Suffolk Downs grandstand that captivates me today. The attendance on any given day is 95 percent male and the average age of patrons is 50, and it's the last place in Massachusetts, I'm convinced, where profanity and chain-smoking are not only tolerated but encouraged. No sentence spoken without using "motherfucker" can be taken seriously; no bettor without a Lucky Strike dangling from his mouth is respected. Some players are cool and rational and know how the pace in a particular race will break and where a given...
...danger of ridicule runs high in Wise's business; the public hates lawyers, anyway. Wise wants to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance -- the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis and by the work of Aristotle, both of which set up the Great Chain of Being, a universal hierarchy in which preeminent man may use all subordinate creation however he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...