Word: supermarket
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Goldsmith always wanted to be a millionaire. At 20 he made international headlines by eloping with a Bolivian heiress, and in 1965 he began a long string of corporate takeovers. Goldsmith's diverse holdings include the French newsweekly L 'Express; Grand Union, the U.S. supermarket chain; and Manhattan's Hard Rock...
...Orwell predicted and renamed it the Department of Love and the Secretary of Love. It's true we are watched all the time by television cameras when we go into our bank even though we are not planning to rob it or go into a supermarket even though we are not planning to do any shoplifting. But we've not yet learned to love Big Brother as Orwell predicted, and we are not quite ready to believe that two and two are five...
Yale also features a snazzy new computerized checkout system, which uses computer codes similar to those on supermarket packages. Before starting up the system in 1982, the university installed the codes on all 175,000 books in its version of Lamont Library, the undergraduate intensive-use library...
...urging people not to vote. Once the balloting was over, however, the guerrillas returned to the offensive, blowing up power stations outside San Salvador and the regional center San Miguel. Late last week a five-member commando group of guerrillas held 73 people hostage for a day in a supermarket in San Salvador, after police foiled a rebel holdup. Eventually, the guerrillas gave up the hostages in exchange for an offer of refuge in Mexico...
...deal adds some important new aisles to the financial supermarket that American Express is assembling and brings an abrupt end to the 134-year-old history of Lehman Brothers as an independent investment banker. Founded in Montgomery, Ala., in 1850 by three immigrant brothers from Bavaria, Lehman Brothers moved its main office to New York City after the Civil War and soon established itself as a major investment firm. It helped finance such struggling young companies as Sears, Roebuck and Pan American World Airways, and one of its partners, Herbert Lehman, served as Governor of New York State...