Word: supermarketeers
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...white fortress where the White House inner circle lodged and the President would soon arrive. That made it the natural place for Morris, Bill Clinton's essential campaign adviser, fidgety genius and imponderable co-author of the election-year comeback. One of the messages was from the Star, a supermarket tabloid. Could Dick call back right away...
What Clinton's aides all knew for sure was what their guts were telling them: if the story was true, it was meltdown time. But maybe it was containable. A supermarket tabloid, they figured, might not be the most credible accuser. As the train headed for Michigan City, Indiana, its last stop before Chicago, McCurry and other Clinton aides talked about whether to present the bad news to the President, who had to keep focused on finishing his acceptance speech. Deputy chief of staff Evelyn Lieberman urged that Clinton be told right away...
...Chinese human-rights violations, I do not buy products made in China. This has become increasingly difficult, however, as the American market is flooded with Chinese goods. This year Louisiana fishermen were severely hurt when the Chinese undersold Louisiana-harvested crawfish 40% to 50% per lb. At the supermarket, people wondered aloud how the Chinese could possibly make a profit. I fear they are using political prisoners and virtual slave labor. MARTA MCCARRON Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A string of poor crops caused by below average rainfall in the midwest are finally catching up with consumers at the supermarket. With food prices in June reaching their highest levels in six years, everything from Wonder bread to Ben & Jerry's has gotten more expensive. Some economists predict that food price inflation, which has averaged a moderate 2.4 percent increase for the last few years, will surge as high as 7 percent by the end of the year. TIME's business editor Bill Saporito reports that while food prices are going up, their overall effect on inflation...
...general chicanery that follow as you want to. The trial is soured by corruption on both sides; even jury selection involves widespread spying on long lists of potential jurors. That doesn't altogether strain credibility. But when the jury is chosen and the leanings of one member, a supermarket manager, are learned to be in doubt, Big Tobacco buys his store's entire chain and offers him a fat salary, along with some thoughts on product litigation...