Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FIDDLING AS A CITY BURNS: Even when the l.a.p.d. slowly returned to the streets on the second day of rioting, it often behaved as if afflicted by a kind of paralysis. In a typical incident in the mid-Wilshire district, a phalanx of 50 police officers guarded a Vons supermarket in the face of taunts from looters. Frustrated, the crowd moved on to an unprotected Thrifty drugstore a block away, which they proceeded to strip. The police waited patiently at Vons until the looters began leaving Thrifty and then -- and only then -- did they move in with sirens blaring...
...television's only regular outlet for serious, original works of American drama. Too often, however, what you get is windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice it to say it has something to do with middle...
...what we are not--the products we will not buy for various ethical reasons, the foods we will not eat, and the music we will not listen to. We go looking for the alternative--or at least the lesser evil--in politics (if we vote at all), in the supermarket (unless we're too hip to shop at them) and on the record store shelves...
...every bit as important as the language," says Jill McKee, a college teacher whose son Robert is in second grade. "He's exposed to another way of doing things." Tokyo-born Sumiko Limbocker, the second-grade techer, adds with a laugh, "When the children meet me in the supermarket, they bow and say, 'Konnichi-wa' ((Hello...
Accounting firms can expect to be sued in connection with many of the past decade's financial scandals. A notable example: the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which investigators shut down last July after it was found to be a virtual supermarket of illegal services. American firms Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse are being investigated for their part in managing B.C.C.I.'s books; both could face suits. Coopers & Lybrand is coming under similar scrutiny for its role as auditor for the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who apparently looted some of his companies in the months before...