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...largest supermarket in the world is always jammed with people, all of whom walk around purposefully, looking for bargains and talking to one another. The vast space is easy to move through, and doesn't weight them down. Somehow they have gotten a grip on the place, and it doesn't frighten them to shop there. Everything there works as the customers expect it to work, and that a place can be so big and manageable at the same time seems to make people happy. I tell people that it's sort of a monument to the human spirit...
Portugal's Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves clung desperately to office last week. Though his grip grew weaker by the hour, he continued to hang on, and rumors swept the country that his moderate opponents were preparing to stage a coup. At week's end, several military units went on alert...
...cell, held the ice pick to her face and forced her to engage in an act of oral sex. "I didn't know what he was UP, going to do, whether he was going to kill me," she said. After three to five minutes, Alligood's grip on the ice pick loosened. "I reached for the ice pick, he reached for the ice pick, I got to it first. I hit him with it while he was sitting on the bunk. He came at me ... Each time he came, I struck at him. He grabbed...
...reason Finley keeps a tight grip on the cash is that the A's do not produce much profit. Attendance at modern Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (capacity: 50,000), a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland, averages only 13,000 per game. Among the reasons: cold, foggy evenings, competition from the San Francisco Giants across the Bay, and Finley's own money-saving cutbacks on promotion. The result last year was a modest profit of $350,000. Much of that came from TV revenue plus play-off and World Series income...
Lownes is also changing PEI in other ways. Convinced that the company is overcommitted to running all its varied businesses itself, he plans to go for more licensing and franchising deals. He is also loosening the company's grip on clubs and hotels. To boost occupancy and attract more convention business from conservative companies, he has removed the Playboy name from the Chicago and Great Gorge, N.J., hotels and opened all the four hotels to non-key holders. In the 18 clubs operated by PEI, he has encouraged individual managers to set their own motifs and has reduced...