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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A string of poor crops caused by below average rainfall in the midwest are finally catching up with consumers at the supermarket. With food prices in June reaching their highest levels in six years, everything from Wonder bread to Ben & Jerry's has gotten more expensive. Some economists predict that food price inflation, which has averaged a moderate 2.4 percent increase for the last few years, will surge as high as 7 percent by the end of the year. TIME's business editor Bill Saporito reports that while food prices are going up, their overall effect on inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Day at the Supermarket | 7/12/1996 | See Source »

...general chicanery that follow as you want to. The trial is soured by corruption on both sides; even jury selection involves widespread spying on long lists of potential jurors. That doesn't altogether strain credibility. But when the jury is chosen and the leanings of one member, a supermarket manager, are learned to be in doubt, Big Tobacco buys his store's entire chain and offers him a fat salary, along with some thoughts on product litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE RUNAWAY PLOT LINE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...growing, as is the fear of crime. In the past, only members of the Mafia, or yakuza, carried guns, and for the most part they killed only other yakuza. But last year there were several brutal handgun murders that did not involve mobsters. Three female employees at a supermarket, for example, were shot in the head in a Tokyo holdup. An advisory board to the National Police Agency last year endorsed the hiring of tens of thousands of additional police because Japan "is proceeding down the path to becoming a Western-style crime society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAILED MIRACLE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...diversity" that Neil L. Rudenstine defends in his beautifully constructed and eloquent President's Report is an elusive concept. It simultaneously balances race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economics, geography, religion, sexual orientation, politics, disabilities, academic interests and family situation in an endless supermarket list of characteristics which defines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glossy Brochure Diversity | 4/3/1996 | See Source »

Procter & Gamble, which has trade-named its fake fat Olean, was jubilant. The company plans to have vitamin-fortified, reduced-calorie test snacks on supermarket shelves by summer. "By replacing the fat in snacks," says P&G chairman John Pepper, "Olean can help millions of Americans cut excess fat and move closer to achieving an important dietary health goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAT-FREE FAT | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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