Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply to withdraw his proposed budget and submit one less awash in red ink. But Byrd could not resist scoffing at his Republican colleagues for bewailing the huge deficits after they had pushed through Reagan's program of tax cuts last year. "When you buy bologna at the supermarket," said Byrd, "you shouldn't expect to get home and find roast beef...
Riots in Gdansk and shock at the supermarket...
...have to dress, but we do have to eat," complained a woman waiting in a long line at one downtown Warsaw supermarket. When shoppers there reached the white enamel butcher's counter, they found that the popular zwyczajna sausage had gone up from 40 to 190 zlotys (51? to $2.42 at the official exchange rate) per kg. A small canned ham had jumped from 200 to 600 zlotys ($2.55 to $7.75). A white-haired woman who had been hovering on the edge of the meat line turned away with only a loaf of brown bread in her wire basket...
...fantastic advantage in not being part of Wall Street. They had been doing things the same way for years." Schwab began providing cash management accounts to customers, complete with Visa cards and checking privileges. He also ventured into the insurance business, turning his firm into a mini financial supermarket in competition with banks, who eventually adopted some of his offerings...
...Nucleus, a tough antiterrorist squad known colloquially as the "leatherheads" for the tight-fitting leather hoods worn during special operations, pulled up behind a modern eight-story apartment building in Padua. Police had quietly cordoned off the Via Pindemonte, the normally busy street out front, and shoppers in the supermarket on the ground floor were startled to find themselves locked inside for their own safety. Then the commandos rushed inside the building, carrying machine guns and dressed in blue jeans, bulletproof vests and masks to prevent identification by terrorists...