Word: supermarketer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...least credit cards still work. An upscale supermarket was packed as I stocked up for what might be a long siege of Lebanon. I found myself in a grim race with another man grabbing bottles of orange juice, each of us trying to get as many as we could before the other could claim them. This will be a savage place in two weeks if this keeps up, I thought...
...dishes with overpriced Chianti from Bosco's depleted stocks, as no white wine is to be had. Retailers smell a conspiracy. "These are the first steps to reinstate a state monopoly on the alcohol trade," says Vera Nefedova, general manager of Vincroft, a private company that runs a four-supermarket chain in Moscow. The state is set to destroy small businesses, and force others to enlarge, she believes: "It'll be easier to take them under centralized control that way." She may be right. Last summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed restoring the state monopoly on production and distribution...
...Lebanese--who lived through far worse than this during the civil war--are determined to put up a steely front. Every time I go to a supermarket to collect quotes from supposedly terrified families stocking up on essentials, I end up being the one with the largest shopping-cart load of canned goods and batteries. But it's hard to escape the sense of dread that looms over the country. "Twenty years of reconstruction are being destroyed in a few days," the Tourism Minister, Joseph Sarkis, moaned to me from his nearly abandoned ministry. The owner of a subterranean nightclub...
...government dirty wars and the social numbness that often accompanies deep fear and unspoken pain. ETA's goal of Basque independence from Spain and France was pursued, from the outset, through selective attacks against police and military forces but became more and more indiscriminate - a bomb in a Barcelona supermarket in 1987 caused 18 deaths. Eventually, the violence threatened a wide swath of Basque society, including businessmen, journalists, judges, professors and artists, among others...
...mates Google Maps with classified-ad giant Craigslist.org to offer an interactive way to look for housing in the U.S. The mashups show where the properties on offer are located, so house hunters are spared the physical effort of pacing out the distance to, say, the nearest park or supermarket. And they'll be able to browse details of house prices and look at photos of the neighborhood...