Word: supermarket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems. The turning point came when two of America's top brewers, Miller and Anheuser-Busch, went looking for an area of growth in the shrinking beer market and found big-time potential in the nonalcoholic segment. Now it appears as if half the shelf space in the supermarket beverage section is filled with a score or more of nonalcoholic brand names, many of them a substantial taste improvement over the pioneers of yore. Miller has sold 5.5 million cases of its Sharp's brand, after just a year on the market, vs. 3.3 million cases...
...some workaholic Japanese, ignoring vacations is no longer an option. Jusco, a supermarket chain, has ordered a mandatory month-long annual holiday for workers at middle-management level and above. Hitoshi Murakami, 36, a Nagoya store manager, spent his enforced leisure time hiking around his local prefecture, visiting his 90-year-old grandmother in Osaka, and for the first time since joining the company 14 years ago, taking a trip with his wife and her family, to the seaside town of Toba. Murakami also attended the Japanese equivalent of a PTA meeting, his first ever, and discovered that his eight...
Residents admit that the Iranians did many good things for the city. The Khomeini Hospital, still under Iranian direction, provides the best medical care in the Bekaa at half the cost of other hospitals. The Path to Faith discount supermarket is open to all. The Iranians dug wells, installed electric generators and even built a fishery...
...tide of petty American litigiousness has kept on rising to new, absurd heights. This is the age of the self-tort crybaby, to whom some disappointment -- a slur, the loss of a job, an errant spouse, a foul-tasting can of beer, a slip on the supermarket floor, an unbecoming face- lift -- is sufficient occasion to claim huge monetary awards...
...wins journalism awards and dines at the White House, in such a cleanup operation is high. In April, Brokaw sanitized the use of the name of the alleged Palm Beach rape victim in the William Smith case under the guise of reporting on the ethics of a supermarket scandal sheet, which had used the name first. This purified the issue sufficiently for the New York Times, which ran a lurid profile of the woman the next day, violating most of the newspaper's rules about printing unsubstantiated charges from unnamed sources and naming victims in rape cases. Other publications, which...