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...DRUGSTORES In a number of cities, CVS is trying out kiosks that let customers scan their items and then pay with cash or a credit or debit card. One downside: the kiosks can't be used to ring up prescription drugs. Osco and Sav-On are running small-scale tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: May You Help You? | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...must visit the independent producers, makers of the so-called grower champagnes. Such vignerons carry on a love affair with their land. It shows in their complex wines. If you call for an appointment, they will receive you with grace. Some of those I visited and adored were Camille Savès in Bouzy, Jacquesson in Dizy, Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay. Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see www.leclercbriant.com), for a smallish fee you can learn to saber a champagne bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubbly's Best | 9/5/2004 | See Source »

...declaring a budget surplus and allocating it is preserving Social Security, the President accomplishes a policy coup: he does nothing while claiming to have ameliorated a major problem. Clinton will simply restore to its coffers the Same money that allowed him to proclaim a surplus. His mantra of "sav[ing] Social Security first" has widespread political appeal, says Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal, because "few Americans know how Social Security works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Behind the Balanced Budget | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

Administrators at colleges that have switched their calendar often sav that students and faculty have expressed satisfaction with the move. Others, however, say the new system has engendered mixed feelings among students who have felt more stress in the condensed academic year...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Harvard's Exam Schedule: Why We're Still Here | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president of Minneapolis' Dayton- Hudson department store chain and a retailing wizard, was brought in to turn Montgomery Ward around. He hired Brennan, then chief executive of the Sav-A- Stop outlets in Jacksonville, to help him in the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling It Quits | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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