Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light pen to scan bar codes. After selecting groceries, customers punch in a delivery time, run a credit card through the magnetic reader and await delivery. On the retailer's end, a computer registers the order and professional shoppers hit the aisles, instructed to select the best cuts of meat and the freshest vegetables and fruits for ScanFoners. If successful, the system is expected to serve 16 cities by June...
...Moscow supermarket across from the Kiev railroad station as the New Year opened, shoppers made their way past cheerless holiday decorations toward the display case in the processed-meat department. There they confronted a Muscovite consumer's dream: not sugarplum fairies but kolbasa sausages piled high on chipped metal trays. Yet there was no buying frenzy. The price per kilo was 43.75 rubles, compared with only 2.20 rubles less than a year ago. Grumbled a middle-aged woman overcome by price paralysis: "What a nightmare...
...experience the Crimson picked up will certainly help it as the team gears up for the meat of its ECAC schedule...
...around $100,000.) And CNN gets more out of its people. Unlike the networks, where correspondents have to fight for airtime, CNN uses practically everything its reporters file. "There's a constant effort to maximize profit for labor expended," says Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Hoff. "It's like a meat-packing plant that uses every piece of the animal." (Among CNN's cooperative ventures is an agreement with TIME to share poll data...
...rather than a patchwork quilt of fledgling states reduced to begging for help. If Yeltsin and the democrats cannot soon bring about an economic turnaround, Russians who now wait patiently in lines may demand any kind of government that will give them bread. In addition to milk, butter and meat, another vital item is in short supply these days -- and it is one that no foreigners can provide: hope for the future...