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...audiovisual presentation. Supermarket Insights does not do full justice to material that is ripe with promise. One recent issue documented the adventures of the Safeway chain in branching, out into "an upscale gourmet food store" (complete with a grand opening at which members of the San Francisco Symphony played chamber music) and scrutinized an enterprising New York retailer who launched an "all-kosher superstore" for Passover. Supermarket Insights Co-Founder Paul Reuter reports such success that his company has already fielded a new video magazine, Health and Beauty Aids Insights. It will be strictly nuts-and-bolts stuff, however. Charney...
...addition, some of the guards used threats of violence to harrass or intimidate their captives. In one instance, a student played Russian roulette with some of the hostages in an attempt to force them to open an embassy safe: "The guy was standing there flipping the chamber of his gun. He said I had five minutes to live. I just started ranting...
Giulio Andreotti, 63, a Christian Democrat who was Premier of Italy five times between 1972 and 1979, and who is now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies...
...House then voted under an unusual floor rule drafted by Rules Committee Chairman Richard Boiling of Missouri. First the chamber was to decide on four minor budget proposals, ranging from highly liberal to rigidly conservative. Then it was to consider 68 separate amendments to one, two or all of the remaining three plans. Finally it was to decide the fate of the Big Three: one plan offered by Republican leaders, another by a bipartisan coalition of liberals and moderates, and a third by Democratic leaders. Even if any budget got a majority, that would not end the matter; the House...
Begin, who had remained outside the chamber throughout most of Peres' speech, brought the audience one of its few moments of laughter with a pantomime suggesting how Peres and Peretz had conducted their deal above, and below, the table. To Peretz and Linn, however, it was no laughing matter. Later, both men received telephone threats, and Linn was assigned a police guard...