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...items a week and coordinates them with check-out registers. And at Safeway, the nation's third largest chain (after American Stores and Kroger), customers can shop from home, using a computerized catalog system to order anything from apricot jelly to zucchini. Shoppers can transmit an order, charge it to their credit card, and have delivery arranged -- all without a word to anyone at the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supermarkets Grocery-Cart Wars | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...light and sound waves captured by television cameras and microphones. The Japanese approach to HDTV was to double the number of horizontal lines used to reproduce the images on the screen -- from just over 500 to more than 1,000 -- while continuing to rely on analog technology to transmit the images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Picture Suddenly Gets Clearer | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...truism to say the problem most often begins at home. When parents are not able to transmit the values of achievement, the ever present peer group fills the vacuum. Moniqua Woods, 12, a student at the Webster Academy in Oakland, says it is easy to spot neglected children because they "come to school every day yawning and tired. You know they stayed out late that night." Concurs classmate Mark Martin, also 12: "Some of the kids' parents are on drugs. You go in their house, and you can smell it." Such a homelife can further strengthen the attitude that school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hidden Hurdle | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...important that the Democratic Party transmit its ideals from generation to generation...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: I Was A Twentysomething FRINGE DELEGATE | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...Increased use of Radio Liberty, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe to transmit the Administration's messages to the peoples of Eastern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Holy Alliance: Ronald Reagan and John Paul II | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

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