Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever increasing number of Americans, such gobbledygook makes sense, dollars-and-cents sense. Typical of thousands of similar classified ads carried weekly by more than 100 specialized newsletters, the message signals to a dedicated legion of supermarket shoppers that essentially the advertiser wants to trade 20 refund forms. While couponing and refunding are hardly new-one of the first cents-off offers was devised in the 1890s by C.W. Post to perk up sales of Postum-they have accelerated in recent years at what might be called a rapid clip. With inflation grabbing from household budgets, those cents-off coupons...
...slow years of the 1970s. Regan realized that diversification was the key to Merrill Lynch's growth. He led the firm into new product lines such as stock options and tax shelters. Simultaneously, he plotted Merrill Lynch's strategy for creating what was to become the financial supermarket...
JADINE has feelings, though, and a deep sense of womanhood which is Morrison's gift. She hardly looks or acts the way Black people expect her to, but she feels the force of their folklore and their spirit. An African woman she sees in a Paris supermarket, with "eyes so beautiful they burned the lashes around them," haunts Jadine for months when she spits at her with disdain. The spirits of the past strike hardest with the discovery of an untamed, uneducated filthy young man named Son who has been hiding in the Street's house for days. At first...
Similarly, the combat against inflationary expectations is the most significant challenge facing Reagan and Stockman. Today's inflation rates seem almost ethereal to most people who see prices rising on their supermarket shelves and in housing and education, but the pace of inflation is buoyed by a core-rate stimulated by unchanging anticipation of these increasing prices. Companies and labor unions decide expenditures, wage policies and investment strategies with a stream of future price increases in mind. The need to alter this conception for the future has played a large role in the administration's strong ideological tack against budget...
...International Studies and a former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, to Saudi Arabia; Robert Nesen, 63, a California Cadillac dealer who owns a ranch next to Reagan's, to Australia; Paul Nitze, 74, former disarmament negotiator in the Nixon Administration, to West Germany; Theodore E. Cummings, 72, former supermarket-chain owner, to Austria; John L. Loeb Jr., 51, New York investment banker and major Republican contributor, to Denmark; Maxwell Rabb, 70, a presidential assistant to Dwight Eisenhower, to Italy...