Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...method employs a very low-powered laser, somewhat like the one used to read price codes at supermarket check-out counters, and directs it at sags, bags and furrows. The full course often to 16 treatments can cost as much as $1,000, and considerably more when the recommended monthly "booster" sessions are included. Yet, says Dr. John Munna, chairman of the A.S.P.R.S. committee for false and deceptive advertising, "all it does is run an electric current through the skin that heats up body tissue and produces swelling. When you produce swelling in the area of a wrinkle, the wrinkle...
...been murdered by remote control, by a poisoner who had no way of guessing in even the most general sense who his victims might be-men or women, young or old-and could not have cared. Six bottles of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol were found in five drugstores and one supermarket; one store was in north Chicago, but the others were in communities in the western suburbs, strung out along a rough north-south line near Illinois State Route 53. The investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed one bottle...
...petty anarchy. Ironies and animosities collide everywhere: on a quiet street, a cat defiantly arches its back at a small dog leashed by its owner, even as the local lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager queen putting...
...owned since 1957, a sign more beseeching than stern reads: PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT. Next door, Gary Fricke says his furniture store lost money last year, and business this year is off another 50%. Mike Riemenschneider, who bought the town's Jack and Jill Supermarket in 1979, has watched sales droop 15%. Says Vernon Waterman of the farm-implement business he runs with his wife Margaret: "I'm surviving on service, but losing money every day. I'm barely in business, and it won't get any better until corn and soybean prices...
...most important crisis in the past few decades," declared Mexican President José López Portillo on a visit to Tijuana. If anything, that was an understatement. Last month's devaluation of the peso created an absolute mess for businesses in both countries. On the Mexican side, supermarket shelves were stripped clean of basic necessities by Americans who found their dollars worth three times as many pesos as they were a year ago. On the American side, merchants whose lifeblood is Mexican patronage were left standing beside silent cash registers...