Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridgeport resident is pushing a 10-point plan which calls for an improved economic development plan, the expansion of affordable housing, renewed commitment to affirmative action, the establishment of a large supermarket in Cambridge and a nationwide search for a new police commissioner...
Meeting a need she discovered, Raftery is leading one of the supermarket tours she began eight years ago as an extension of her role as cooking teacher and unofficial den mother to the large Japanese expatriate community here. Having raised three children, Raftery, 37, has accumulated a practical knowledge of middle-American cuisine and cleaning products that she now cheerfully dispenses to her students, most of them house wives whose husbands commute to work in Manhattan...
...What is this, and what do you do with it?' or 'How do you eat this?'" Many adapt quickly; one former pupil now extols the virtues of Kraft macaroni and cheese as a quick and easy children's breakfast. But at first the sheer abundance of an American supermarket can be overwhelming. Pausing before an array of 22 varieties of bread crumbs, Raftery soothes her bewildered charges: "Use any kind you want to. Just read the label to make sure there's nothing artificial...
WHISTLE-BLOWERS COME IN ALL different styles, but they don't tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...
...Smith, it seems, the attention from Russell was just one of several emotional dramas played out during her high school years. She first attempted suicide at 13, then tried again when she was 17, reportedly after a fellow employee at the local Winn-Dixie supermarket, a married man, ended their romance. This second try, an overdose of aspirin, landed her in the hospital, where doctors diagnosed her condition as an "adjustment disorder" -- an inappropriate reaction to stress...