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...Stew Leonard's Farms, a large retail food outlet in Norwalk, Conn., computerized check-out scanners keep watch over the shelf and warehouse stocks of more than 650 different consumer items. Says J. Michael Peters, the firm's financial controller: "These scanners have helped tremendously to keep inventories in line with sales. Before we got them, it would take days, sometimes even weeks, to check out our inventory-to-sales position. Now the scanners provide the data instantaneously...
...suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew, but his selection begs the question of the value of conveniently designating one city or town as a microcosm for the larger whole Colonial historians, faced with a torrent of town studies recently, have come to no firm conclusions about their significance in studying a much more homogeneous society...
...third day, I had a bowl of Fu Manchu stew, a plate of vegetable tempura, another taco, and a tall cup of fruit salad...
...Manchu Stew stand. This item was genuinely wretched--the recipe, as far as I could tell, was rice, soy sauce, grains of hamburger meat, and canned celery. A few blocks further downtown, a vendor was selling the same dish as a Wok-a-Doo Stew...
...House Democrats were badly split over what course of action to take. Many were tempted to sit back and, as an aide to Speaker Tip O'Neill put it, "let the Republicans stew in their own juices." O'Neill has already dismissed the Hollings plan and is pushing his own lieutenants in the House to come up with an alternative. Yet one Democratic leader points out that the Speaker may still be nursing wounds from his humiliating defeat in last year's bruising budget battle. "Tip is afraid to take the lead," he said. "He doesn...