Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city-state has been restored to prosperity. The pace of reconstruction has been stunningly rapid. Essential services have been resumed; most government buildings have been repaired; ports have reopened. The debris-and-body-choked "Highway of Death" leading north toward Iraq has been cleared and opened to civilian traffic. Supermarket shelves are restocked with imported gourmet delicacies, and shops sell the latest fashions...
...specific accusations published last week have been peddled for more than a year by a disgruntled former state employee Clinton had fired. The purveyor has zero evidence, and Clinton and the women allegedly involved all deny it. But the stories were published in the Star, a supermarket tabloid, picked up by the two New York papers, and thus became fair game for everyone else...
...store. Introduced last week in San Francisco by Virginia- based US Order, ScanFone allows Bay Area customers to pay bills and buy their groceries using a special Touch-Tone phone, a bar-code scanner and a 6,000-item catalog from Safeway. Unlike some predecessors, including a discontinued supermarket shopping system introduced by the home-computer information network Prodigy, ScanFone is not linked to personal computers or terminals. Its cost, now $9.95 a month, is comparable to postage and gas expenses...
...appearance and popularity of these stores are signs of our growing environmental consciousness, but also of the extent to which environmentalism has become a fad. Slap the label "organic" on anything, from lip gloss to supermarket baggies, and you can double the price and still increase sales...
...Moscow supermarket across from the Kiev railroad station as the New Year opened, shoppers made their way past cheerless holiday decorations toward the display case in the processed-meat department. There they confronted a Muscovite consumer's dream: not sugarplum fairies but kolbasa sausages piled high on chipped metal trays. Yet there was no buying frenzy. The price per kilo was 43.75 rubles, compared with only 2.20 rubles less than a year ago. Grumbled a middle-aged woman overcome by price paralysis: "What a nightmare...