Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines of lunch-hour customers. A separate crowd waits to be served by an army of a dozen tellers. A closed-circuit television repeats the bank's current commercials. Potted palms, ads for trips to Hawaii, and green and blue hues strike you from every direction. It is, unmistakably, supermarket banking...
...spent $100,000 and converted four of his chain's 324 U.S. outlets into white boxes with black stripes: they look like supermarket generic packaging with signboards reading 39? HAMBURGER STAND. McDonald's and Burger King's cheapest burger goes...
...shelter, a large room in the church's basement with 20 mattresses on the floor, offered hot soup and bread donated by Savenor's Kirkland St. supermarket. A staff of seven volunteers were on hand to serve, including five from the Divinity School and one from the College...
...under one name or another since 1921, and it is enormously well off, primarily as a result of extraordinary expressions of philanthropy. Its motto is "We take care of our own." Recent bequests from the Samuel Goldwyn estate alone approach $35 million. George Burns just gave the fund a supermarket, and the fund sold it for $600,000. The big gifts and an industrywide payroll deduction plan that now brings in about $2 million a year have accumulated to present assets of $80 million, including the 47 acres in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, where the Country House...
...houses and even the public baths," said Medvedev. The purpose of the raids is to root out individuals who do not possess residence permits to live in the capital and other major cities or who have taken time off from their jobs. Medvedev described one operation at the Univermag supermarket near his home. Two busloads of uniformed police swept down upon the shoppers and demanded to examine the internal passports every Soviet citizen must carry. Those whose papers were not in order, or who looked as if they should be at work, were herded into the buses and driven...