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...friend, a very cool young man named Daniel Conn. A little earlier, Conn had watched a nearby house burn down. Although one of his friends tried to rescue them, three old people were killed in the fire. A little later. Conn sees two friends try to halt a shooting spree by a trio of criminals. His friends are killed. One is a woman he loves...
...marketplace that represents all the problems and potential of the nation's 2,000,000 retailers-and thus is both the prototype and the archetype of the U.S. retail store. In its aisles, and the aisles of all the other stores across the nation, the greatest shopping spree in history took place last year. The U.S. economy had its most prosperous twelve months ever, and the U.S. consumer, who continued spending as if there were no tomorrow, helped considerably to bring about the country's fourth straight year of economic expansion...
Within a half-day drive from Cambridge, ten new chairlifts and as many new T-bars were installed over the summer. Except at the most celebrated areas, life lines last winter were smaller than in the past, and the recent construction spree should be sufficient to meet the anticipated increase in demand...
...chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again, go on a spending spree to Monte Carlo and try the wheel once more. Of course, the odds are against them...
...nation's third largest variety chain (after F.W. Woolworth and W.T. Grant) has expanded far beyond its old dime-store stage and is, in fact, quite a different creature. This small semantic difference highlights a new philosophy that has set all the variety chains off on their biggest spree of change and expansion...