Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The Food and Drug Administration plans to give the food industry a chance to make previously forbidden health claims for food on supermarket shelves, with the warning that if claims become outlandish, "we will come down on you--hard...
Suddenly, buses, trucks and taxis were scarce in Johannesburg. The service at restaurants and on the supermarket lines in Pretoria was painfully slow. And the factories around Port Elizabeth were strangely silent. The reason: millions of black South African drivers, waiters, supermarket cashiers, office clerks and industrial workers had taken the day off, producing the largest antiapartheid protest in the country's history...
...Kroger supermarket chain eagerly boosted the effort; it offered to distribute the brochure and agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain's groceries during the first weekend. Material on the rotation diet may become available soon to supermarkets throughout the country. The plan restricts women to 600 calories for each of the first three days, 900 during the next four, then 1,200 over the following seven. The third week repeats the first. (Men get an additional 600 calories daily.) To soothe hunger pangs, dieters can munch...
...such cheap strategy would be to stamp "Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated" on the driver's license of anyone guilty of DWI. A DWI offender would be stigmatized whenever he writes a check at a local supermarket, or gets carded in a local bar. Nobody wants a gossipy supermarket clerk to know he drove drunk...
...oceanside resort city of Santa Barbara, Calif., they are known as tree people, after Fig Tree Park, a place many of them call home. Palms outstretched, the scruffy men and women beg from pedestrians on the main shopping artery. They urinate in alleys, rummage for food in supermarket dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence, is determined to contain their numbers...