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Word: supermarket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...water rises into the atmosphere to form rain clouds, it sucks up with it shoals of fish and sometimes quantities of stones. Fish and stones hover above us in the sky. Elsewhere, Pliny offered an item about a woman who gave birth to an elephant. He was, occasionally, a supermarket-tabloid sort of Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THERE LIFE IN OUTER SPACE? | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...game dancing and postgame cursing took something away from his heroics, and defensive back Deion Sanders, whose declarations of love for the Cowboys are somewhat mitigated by the $35 million Jones will pay him over the next seven years. Or even the smirk on the face of the Dallas supermarket supervisor who fired an employee the other day for wearing a Packer shirt to work. The Dallas Cowboys have, like it or not, become Ugly America's Team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGLY AMERICA'S TEAM | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...ourselves, "I'm going to eat right." The truth, though, is that we don't want to eat right. What we want is to eat whatever we feel like, in whatever quantity we want, without gaining weight or clogging up our arteries. And food producers are delighted to cooperate: supermarket shelves overflow with diet soda, sugar-free candy and, in recent years, fat-free cookies, crackers and snacks of all descriptions. Some of them may taste like chemical-flavored cardboard, but for millions of diet-conscious consumers, they're better than practicing self-control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH: ARE WE READY FOR FAT-FREE FAT? | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...drug and has been particularly critical of cigarette ads aimed at children (he calls smoking a "pediatric disease"). One of his proudest achievements was making sure every item of processed food clearly lists its fat, fiber and calorie contents. "The nutrition facts labels changed literally every product in the supermarket," Kessler says. "You used to walk in and not know what to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMISH UNDER FIRE | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN EARY TALE | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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