Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loaf and water and soft drinks at $2 a bottle (the water in Lake Managua is too polluted to drink). Children sat in the streets, putting their hands in mud puddles and then licking the moisture. Rioting broke out among a mob of hungry survivors when a supermarket owner threw open his doors...
...current interest in organics is unprecedented. In 1965 there were only 500 stores in the U.S. specializing in health foods. Now there are more than 3,000. Virtually every major supermarket chain is either carrying or considering handling a line of health-food items. Some estimate that sales will top $400 million this year and account for 5% of all supermarket sales...
...inevitable as some unscrupulous merchants seek to capitalize on the fad. Allen Grant, West Coast editor of the late J.I. Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming, believes that anywhere from 50% to 70% of the food labeled organic is, in fact, no different from that being sold on supermarket shelves. Even if that estimate is too high, most experts agree that more "organic" food is being sold today than actually grown. "The temptation is obvious," says Mrs. Crissy Rose, a research analyst at California's department of consumer affairs. "The market is there, but the food...
...year-old can repeat a song after hearing it once, the song is bound to be a hit. Musical redundancy means everything; originality and intensity are mere icing. So few popular songs have say important verbal content that it is typical to hear people chanting along with supermarket Muzak, singing words at random to an approximation of the tune. The nonsensical result is likely to be as engaging as the original...
...built in the triangle between those two streets--if she was going to be looking at him every day, she wanted to know who he was.) She had made us a lunch consisting of toasted English muffins, lamp chops bought at Sage's (she has never shopped at a supermarket), milk (she offered me coffee, but she limits herself to two cups a day, one at breakfast, and one in the afternoon, because she's afraid that otherwise she would never stop drinking it), apple pie ("Unfortunately without the cheese," she said, quoting the rhyme: "Apple pie without the cheese/Is...