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There have been scattered setbacks, of course. After the price controls were announced, but before they were instituted, many people spent their spare cash to stock up on groceries. "There was a collective psychosis," said one supermarket manager. Some merchants simply ignored the freeze and raised prices illegally. State inspectors have closed down 50 stores, and more than 3,000 phone calls were placed to a government office that is receiving reports of price violations. A few customers expressed their discontent violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some...
...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...
More serious than the shortages may be the flaunting of privilege by Nicaragua's political bureaucracy. Officials drive trim, Soviet-built Lada sedans while private autos frequently lack doors or windshields because spares are not available. In a Managua supermarket, many of its shelves gapingly empty, a shopper complains that he has been unable to find powdered milk for 15 days. As he talks, a woman waits at a check-out counter with, among other things, a can of powdered milk. Says a third customer: "You see, she has connections. With the right connections you don't lack anything...
...teens as custodians, cashiers and stock clerks, says it could add more workers if labor costs were lower. Remarks Audrey Freedman, a labor economist for the Conference Board, a Manhattan research group: "Maybe we'll see young theater ushers showing us to our seats again, or supermarket baggers who will carry groceries to our cars...
...Antonio a sheriff's lieutenant was just sentenced to two years' probation for repeatedly zapping a handcuffed suspect last summer. In April in Dallas, another worry of stun-gun critics became reality when a pair of robbers used one to disable a clerk in a Safeway supermarket. In Los Angeles, the county coroner is investigating the death four weeks ago of a suspected PCP drug user who was zapped by police. It was the second such fatality in two years, though PCP is considered more likely to have been responsible for the deaths than the zappings...