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...that has prompted me to try and make things look as homey as possible in our rented house. But as a newcomer to this country, I've discovered that filling the cupboards with groceries and household basics is not as simple as heading to the mall or the supermarket...
...state-run companies, but many Vietnamese look forward to having more choice in their daily lives. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like...
...What could be bad for domestic businesses is welcomed by many Vietnamese consumers. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group in a joint venture with a local company. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like." Foreign giants entering Vietnam will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy...
...offer the Pentagon job to Gates until early last week. A little cloak-and-dagger was used to sneak Gates onto the President's ranch for his job interview: he was instructed to meet White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and his deputy, Joe Hagin, at a supermarket parking lot in nearby McGregor, Texas, for the drive to Crawford. The President slipped out to meet Gates at the new office that opened on the ranch...
...collection was never worth more than the sum of its dimes. (All the same, to this day I get a chill any time I find myself around the intersection of Market Street and Dolores in San Francisco, where the U.S. mint sits on a hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue...