Word: supermarket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first real pleasure is a vision of possibilities. Three yellow roses might look good here; there's room for some tomatoes over there, or perhaps a row of asters. People planting their first plots tend to be too practical, determined to labor over beans and carrots that the local supermarket provides just as well and far more cheaply (exceptions: peas and raspberries). It is undeniably fun to feed oneself from one's harvest, but remember that gardening is not supposed to be practical. If, on the other hand, you yearn to grow carrots (which do grow like weeds), then plant...
...show needed a little simplification and pacing," Shannon says. In order to accomplish these things they changed the costuming and staging, she says. "We dressed the kids in more colorful coustumes and the undergraduates in less colorful clothes in the supermarket scene," Shannon says. "We also brought action that was crucial to the story line more downstage...
Panama's three largest supermarket chains helped Noriega's cause by bowing to government pressure and reopening stores that had been shut for ten days by the general strike. Meanwhile, several U.S. companies, including Texaco and Eastern Air Lines, paid nearly $3 million in taxes and fees to Panama's cash- starved treasury. The firms said the payments were part of the normal course of business. The money temporarily relieved a financial squeeze that had grown severe since Washington froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in the U.S last month. To prevent companies from easing Noriega's fiscal woes...
...most familiar and plebeian, take-out means pizza, chicken or burgers from fast-food chains, or a Chinese or Mexican meal -- or, of course, frozen or vacuum-bagged fodder from the supermarket. But these days there is a huge variety of fresh take-out food for the weary shopper. Many supermarkets offer wide menus that include not only kaleidoscopic salad bars but also many tony dishes just cooked in-house. The newly spruced-up Rice Epicurean Market in Houston offers roasted Cornish hens and beef Wellington, and it will steam lobsters to order as a customer goes about other shopping...
...purveyors of take-out food do not always do their own cooking. Although most ready-to-eat dishes are made in store kitchens or in large central commissaries of supermarket chains, some take-out food departments shop at other sources. They may buy ethnic specialties to supplement their own production or pour prepared soup into electrified tureens or, like Fairway in New York City, buy everything ready-made. What they offer is, in fact, retaken-out meals...