Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind that admission of public cynicism was a growing crisis of confidence in the functions of Wall Street itself. Over the past decade, the place where American business raises money for its operations and expansion has been transformed into a high-tech, high-volume supermarket in which institutional investors move billions of dollars in the blink of an electronic eye. In all, some $130 billion in stocks, bonds and other securities now change hands daily simply on the basis of telephone calls alone...
Does that sound like the Stephen King of the supermarket rack? The man behind Maximum Overdrive, behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
Last week, in a move that dealt a serious blow to the financial-supermarket concept, Merrill Lynch announced that it was putting its comparatively unprofitable real estate division up for sale. Apparently, customers did not always think that a good place to buy a stock was necessarily a good place to buy a house...
...Veronica may be part of the same national mood that first brought back the Superman movies and made Rambo into a pop icon. But it is also the result of savvy marketing by the comic industry's Big Three, which have pushed their product aggressively at specialty shops, supermarket check- out counters and bookstores. Dozens of other companies have climbed on the comic-book bandwagon, emblazoning characters on lunch boxes, beach towels and posters...
During off-the-cuff taste tests conducted around Harvard Yard yesterday, the taste of the caramel-colored beverage was described as something close to "boiled Pepsi", "soy sauce" and "generic supermarket soda." Jolt is advertised as being "inspired by the need for a better tasting soft drink...