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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...hypermarkets are doing their best to help shoppers feel comfortable in what is sometimes a disorienting space. Dallas' Hypermart USA installed hot lines in its aisles so shoppers can get information and directions. Its bakery can churn out 20,000 tortillas a day. To make sure cranky toddlers do not prompt their parents to hurry too much, Hypermart offers a Ball Room, where parents can deposit their children to be supervised. But anyone who wants to shop in a 200,000-sq.-ft. store should remember to don jogging shoes. Says Melba Lincoln, a Dallas homemaker: "Shopping here is like...
...Eight years ago, Stankard began encasing his flowers in a crystal block about six inches high, three inches wide. As this new form evolved, he began laminating the blocks with translucent dark green glass on three sides, giving the impression that the plants and their roots are suspended in space, released from their glass prison. The form, which Stankard calls a cloistered botanical, brought his work to the attention of collectors of contemporary glass. "He has broken away from the traditional paperweight style, and is now accepted as a very serious artist around the world," says Douglas Heller, director...
...Senate prerogatives. The Administration has claimed that the classified negotiating record of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty permits it to reinterpret the limits that were ratified by the Senate on testing space weapons. To prevent a similar dispute in the future, Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware had Shultz present a detailed history of the INF negotiations...
Then Hawking's luck turned. The progress of the disease slowed, and Einsteinian space-time suddenly seemed less formidable. But what really made the difference, he says, "was that I got engaged to Jane," who was studying modern languages at Cambridge. "This gave me something to live for." As he explains, "If we were to get married, I had to get a job. And to get a job, I had to finish my Ph.D. I started working hard for the first time in my life. To my surprise, I found I liked...