Word: breads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief beneficiary of the boom is Whole Foods Market, whose 900% growth in the 1990s has produced a billion-dollar juggernaut with 78 stores in 17 states. Whole Foods rose to dominance in a three-year buying spree during which it acquired New England's Bread and Circus, North Carolina's Wellspring Markets and California's Mrs. Gooch's. Last year the company swallowed its biggest rival, the 22-store East Coast chain Fresh Fields, leaving Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo.--one-quarter its size--as the only two national natural-foods chains...
...friendly culture will soon be put to a severe test as a second wave of competitors emerges. In Boston, where Whole Foods has held sway with its five Bread and Circus stores, Star Markets, a billion-dollar conventional chain, has recently opened four natural and organic Wild Harvest supermarkets. Meanwhile, Wild Oats, while not as large, grew 75% last year and looks to become a formidable rival. In spite of that, Mackey still sees supermarkets as his main competition: chains like Albertson's and Safeway have vastly increased their natural-foods offerings. Such chains, however, may actually help organic stores...
...Around every metro stop and in every underground crossing are makeshift kiosks and tables, called, lapki, that sell newspapers, fruit, books, CDs, videos, clothing, hats, groceries and whatever else the market will bear. This is capitalism at its rawest. Muscovites no longer need to wait in line for stale bread, and they know longer need to trade kitschy revolutionary pins for American blue jeans...
...same time, El Nino gives scientists a rare chance to study a phenomenon that transcends the short-term weather forecasts that are the bread and butter of meteorologists. In many ways, El Nino may be a dry run for the kind of large-scale weather effects some scientists predict will accompany the climate changes caused by global warming...
...President, but you were never elected to set the moral tone of the country. Just like you said back in '92, you asked the public to hire you to work hard--and most of them still like what's happened on your watch. It's gas lines and bread lines that you have to worry about, sir--not punch lines...