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Yale also features a snazzy new computerized checkout system, which uses computer codes similar to those on supermarket packages. Before starting up the system in 1982, the university installed the codes on all 175,000 books in its version of Lamont Library, the undergraduate intensive-use library...
...urging people not to vote. Once the balloting was over, however, the guerrillas returned to the offensive, blowing up power stations outside San Salvador and the regional center San Miguel. Late last week a five-member commando group of guerrillas held 73 people hostage for a day in a supermarket in San Salvador, after police foiled a rebel holdup. Eventually, the guerrillas gave up the hostages in exchange for an offer of refuge in Mexico...
...deal adds some important new aisles to the financial supermarket that American Express is assembling and brings an abrupt end to the 134-year-old history of Lehman Brothers as an independent investment banker. Founded in Montgomery, Ala., in 1850 by three immigrant brothers from Bavaria, Lehman Brothers moved its main office to New York City after the Civil War and soon established itself as a major investment firm. It helped finance such struggling young companies as Sears, Roebuck and Pan American World Airways, and one of its partners, Herbert Lehman, served as Governor of New York State...
...artwork over the maker's name. Styles include art nouveau, abstract and realistic; at least one vineyard is putting photography on labels. Zaca Mesa uses several styles, clothing some of its varietals with twin panels of golden oaks and distant hills. Says Ream: "If you go into the supermarket-where the industry is headed-you want people to see the label from a distance...
...Midwest middle class, respond to family crises in the plainsong cadences of naturalism. For these people communication is hard enough; eloquence would be a suspect luxury. You have to listen hard to catch both the humor and the despair in a mother's complaint on returning from the supermarket: "Why are modern groceries so heavy?" (from Lee Blessing's Independence, a mother-and-daughters drama that plays like Crimes of the Heart without Henley's savory moonshine kick). Often in these works, nothing happens; usually, that is the point. In Horton Foote's Courtship virtually...