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...even been featured in supermarket tabloids...
...York Times, with 2,500 tests on the market supplied by the $400 million-a-year "personality-assessment" industry. In the past three years, I have taken five of these tests in the course of applying for a series of jobs: as a cleaning person, a supermarket clerk and as an "associate" at various big-box stores. No, I hadn't given up on writing; I was doing research for a book on the low-wage life. I was expecting to toil and sweat, even wear unflattering uniforms. But I wasn't expecting to have to share my innermost thoughts...
...alert the advertiser that you want more information. Or imagine catalogs printed on digital paper: just check off the items you want and write down your credit-card number or whatever future payment system takes hold - no need to make a call or go to a website. Your local supermarket could send you lists of everything it has in stock, and you mark what you need and write down the quantities and your address for home delivery. If you're going out on the town, just circle the area you plan to visit on a map printed on digital paper...
...League, Japan's oldest and winningest team, are owned by the nation's leading daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. They draw capacity crowds wherever they play, including 3 million fans a year at home. That's comfortably ahead of their nearest competitor, the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, owned by a supermarket chain. But many of the other teams, particularly in the Pacific League, play to sparse crowds and operate at an annual loss, using the red ink as an advertising tax write...
...have a panic attack and feel relaxed at the same time. A rapidly effective treatment is a one-minute hypnotic relaxation procedure taught by a therapist trained in clinical hypnosis. A person standing in line at a supermarket, about to be overcome by panic, can use this method in less time than it would take to reach for and swallow a pill. Most people can be trained in one or two sessions. And there are no side effects other than the feeling of mastery. MARIAN K. SHAPIRO Lexington, Mass...