Word: floorful
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What is this place? Welcome to Hypermart USA, where the floor space (222,000 sq. ft.) and the discounts are both breathtakingly huge. The suburban Dallas emporium belongs to a booming category of retail store called the hypermarket. "I've never seen so much under one roof," says Martha Mason, a homemaker visiting Hypermart USA. "I could spend days in here." Sam Walton certainly hopes so. The founder and chairman of booming Wal-Mart discount stores opened his first Hypermart USA last December as a joint venture with the Cullum retail chain. Last week he opened a second in Topeka...
...copycats. Today France has more than 600 hypermarkets that together account for some 14% of the < country's retail trade. Carrefour, which now operates hypermarkets in Spain, Brazil and Argentina, plans to open its first U.S. outlet this week, in suburban Philadelphia. Among the store's innovations: a rubbery floor surface to ease the punishment on shoppers' feet...
...ride through the Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World -- seemingly a vast proportion of today's Broadway audience -- Phantom is a brilliantly manipulated journey, scary yet ultimately unthreatening. A prime example is the show's most celebrated effect, the gasp-evoking plummet from the ceiling almost to the floor of a 1,500-lb. chandelier. Many spectators arrive knowing it will drop, and the staging gives plenty of clues to the rest. Equally, however, audiences can trust that the "danger" will be averted at the last possible minute, so the dread is purely titillating, without a hint of life...
...consists of Stephen, me, three nurses and sometimes Jane," says Laflamme. "I usually try to arrange group fares." On the road, the activities occasionally deviate somewhat from physics. One night Stephen accompanied a group to a Chicago discotheque, where he joined in the festivities by wheeling onto the dance floor and spinning his chair in circles. Later, in a restaurant, a waiter passed the cork from a newly opened bottle of wine under Stephen's nose. The computer beeped, and the voice proclaimed, "Very good." Hawking was just being polite; the tracheostomy also deprived him of his sense of smell...
...report claims that shutdowns occurred in almost every component of the complex trading systems, from the printers on the exchange floors to the phalanxes of minicomputers that do the bulk of the N.Y.S.E.'s back-office work. Part of the Big Board's designated order turnaround (DOT) system, which transmits orders from brokerage firms to the floor of the exchange, crashed four times on Oct. 19. The next day, a system that stores standing orders to buy or sell shares at a predetermined price stopped three times. One still unidentified software glitch temporarily misplaced transaction reports involving some 4.3 million...