Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"There've been a lot of handbags stolen in here, and some coats, too," one employee at Hungry Charley's said yesterday. "It's the phony hippies and the local junkies that are doing it," he added.
Kramer, too, has had to take protective measures at the Harvard Bookstore. At a cost of $50 per month, he's added a closed circuit television which surveys customers in the store. He also has a sign next to the door asking customers to stop and check their books before...
The manager of the Minute Man Record store disagrees. "Sure, we've got a lot of stealing like anyone else, but there's no percentage in prosecuting the people who steal. We're just trying to educate our employees to teach them to detect shoplifters," he said.
Sheldon Cohen, the owner of the Out-of-Town Ticket Agency, organized the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association last summer, as a response to the rash of trashing and looting that swept through the Square. His group asked the Cambridge City Council to employ more police in the Square, and...
Kramer, Boynton, and many of the smaller, less-established merchants in the Square have not joined the group, feeling that it does not understand the fundamental problems behind the stealing.