Word: coop
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...Coop: 1. Where tourists go to buy Harvard sweatshirts and key chains; where you will stand in line for hours at the beginning of each semester to buy overpriced textbooks. 2. Rhymes with "loop" not "blow...
...known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier plans. She has bought a machine that will turn her chicken stalag into a factory for chicken pies. The prison camp...
...literary homage, perhaps to Dickens, and erect our own, uplifting Bleak House, or else name it for Harvard ingenue Jed Purdy '97, in order to showcase the stunning good looks of the new architectural wonder. Or, if Harvard built it on the site of the now-departed Coop Annex, it could, in homage to another of the site's previous occupants, give the College "Bow House." The name could be misread, however, leading to sexual harassment suits after much gropius behavior...Anyway, the big boys and girls in the home office will pick their own name, and, as sure...
...third consecutive year, poor financial health prohibits the Coop from offering a rebate to its members. During the previous year, the store suffered an 11.2 percent drop in overall sales, a trend that was reversed in later years when the Coop offered its members rebates of up to 5 percent...
...December 1997 5 - After months of renovation and construction, the new and improved Harvard Coop bookstore opens, featuring four floors of books and a full-service cafe. Barnes and Noble took over from the Harvard Cooperative Society's management just prior to the renovation...