Word: supermarket
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Many small businesses fear that branches of big chains will take local savings deposits but not lend them back to firms in the community. "In rural Minnesota, many banks lend money on a handshake," says Daryl Erdman, the Minnesota supermarket owner. "Even if a guy's financial statement is a mess, the banker knows he's good for it. What happens if Chase Manhattan puts a brand-new East Coast M.B. A. in here...
...wheels her cart down supermarket aisles, Barbara Harris is stunned. "When people say that inflation has been checked," says the Los Angeles public relations consultant, "I listen in shock and disbelief. Just today I went across the street to get a loaf of bread, and it was $1.43. I was floored." Although Harris, 40, sticks to a tight budget and avoids stocking up on frills, the weekly grocery bill for her family of three has climbed from $80 to $100 in the past year. That 25% hike is nearly six times as great as the modest increase in the Consumer...
Nowhere are price hikes more ominous than in the supermarket. In Topeka, Kans., Schoolteachers Jeff and Chris Templin are grimly familiar with sticker shock at the grocery store. With three children in their family, the high food prices have forced them to cut back on other purchases to make ends meet. Says Jeff, 33: "We can't seem to keep food expenses as low as $60 or $70 a week, and that is without unnecessary sweets and with a lot of chopped beef on toast. We don't go out to eat very often any more...
...Scotty alongside sailboats or sports cars, for example, resemble nothing as much as ads for Calvin Klein menswear. And while the plot quickly ensnares the audience, the pace and soundtrack soon become monotonous. We hear the same music when Scotty robs houses as when he trails Mickey in the supermarket...
Goldsmith, who owns the French weekly L 'Express and an American supermarket empire, has crusaded for years urging Western journalists to study disinformation techniques. To prepare a defense for the Spiegel trial, he solicited testimony from students of Soviet actions in West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith...