Word: supermarket
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...middle-aged woman in a large Istanbul supermarket toyed nervously with the packet of butter in her shopping cart before returning it to the shelf. "It's French," she explained to no one in particular as her reason for selecting another brand. She was expressing the resentment that she and many other Turks feel at the French National Assembly's decision to enact a law recognising that genocide was committed against the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire...
...striking figure onstage - dreads down to his shoulders, a dark headband holding them in place, clad in a simple white tunic and flowing white pants. His music is a stew of many ingredients - Brazilian spices, West African meat, European pop broth. Nascimento seems to view the world as his supermarket, throwing in his musical cart Portuguese fado, South African juju music and, of course, bossa nova rhythms from his native country. His first song popped and burbled with township jive, and the emotional high point was reached when Lo Borges (a peer of Nascimento's who hails from his home...
...other things there, it doesn't have to be a dedicated trip. You can go to the bank, go to the supermarket or pay your bills at City Hall," she says...
...heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels on all supermarket processed-food items...
...Latifah is asking Vice President Al Gore whether he prefers his women in leather or lace. And what's more, he answers. (Lace.) Bush has tried to push away the microscope, remembering what happened to his father when reporters got it wrong about the President's understanding of a supermarket scanner. So each day starts at the ramparts, and the candidate glares at photographers who try to catch him with his tie undone or drinking a nonalcoholic beer...