Word: supermarket
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Peggy Noonan, a former White House speechwriter and Reagan favorite, was driving with her mother from a supermarket in suburban Virginia when she heard a radio sound bite of Bush's "I'm one of you" quote. She felt her stomach sink. She called Fuller, who told her to be on Air Force Two the next afternoon for Bush's return to New Hampshire. Sitting next to Bush on the plane, she tried to make sense of what he was trying to say about himself. His hands fluttered near his chest, as if seeking his heart, and he said softly...
...winning on his first try for elective office, Kohl had the state's sports fans on his side. After selling his family's supermarket and department-store chain in the '70s, he bought the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team in 1985 to keep it in the city. Kohl is expected to be tough on the Pentagon, since he urges a 10% cut in defense spending, but he shuns a liberal label, noting his experience as a businessman. He joins a growing club of Senate millionaires, including Pennsylvania's John Heinz, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg and Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum...
Nationwide, 42% of Americans admit they ordered dessert more than once a ! month last year, according to Restaurants & Institutions magazine, up from 17% the year before. But the boom is not confined to eating out. Supermarket bakery sales were up 21% in 1986 and '87. And bakeries are bursting with business. "Desserts in restaurants are only half the loaf," affirms Elliott Medrich, co-owner of Cocolat, a San Francisco Bay-area chocolate shop renowned for its truffles. "The real dessert action is in the high end of take-away- food places or for people cooking at home...
WISCONSIN. Democrat William Proxmire used to pay the $145 filing fee, and that constituted his total campaign expenditure. This year it cost supermarket magnate Herbert Kohl $3 million of his own money just to succeed the retiring Proxmire as the Democratic nominee. Kohl, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks . basketball team, makes a virtue of his wealth: "a Senator just for you." He will face the only woman nominated for a Senate seat this year, Susan Engeleiter, a moderate who is Republican leader of the state senate...
...open window of the apparently nameless restaurant next to the Thai food kitchen, I could see two boys sitting in the kitchen, shelling the peas that I would eat, and scrambling eggs in the hugest wok I had ever seen. Minutes after I placed my order, a supermarket blue-and-white ceramic plate full of "fried rice with pork and shrimps" was placed in front...