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Water was in short supply for days. As taps were broken by angry crowds, the city seemed at tunes on the verge of panic. One evening, the manager of a West Beirut supermarket drove painstakingly along side streets through the no-man's land separating East and West Beirut. In East Beirut, where a sort of normality prevailed under Israeli occupation, he picked up a truckload of bottled water and returned with it after midnight to West Beirut. The next day he sold it at regular prices. As rumors of food shortages spread, people lined up for emergency supplies. Said...
Traveling businessmen should be prepared for some shockers. In Oslo, for example, a Scotch and soda runs nearly $6. A glass of beer in even a modest café is $5. In Osaka, Japan, an expatriate housewife will probably pass the supermarket meat counter once she notes the cost of filet mignon: $78.94 for a kilogram (2.2 lbs.). A white shirt in a fashion able Nairobi clothing store can sell for as much...
...enterprise is oriented toward broadcasters, then VideoJournal aims to reach the industrial market. Founded just seven months ago by a Philadelphia outfit called Media Concepts, VideoJournal has some 200 subscribers (at $35 to $45 an issue) who tune in to such topics as "Trends" and "Production Hints." Supermarket Insights (227 subscribers, $8,500 a year for monthly installments), despite its substantial price tag, looks like the lowest-budget effort of the lot. All stills, voice-over and grade-school graphics, it is the videotape equivalent of a sales manager's audiovisual presentation. Supermarket Insights does not do full justice...
...thinking of all the dead boys. The women want the war stopped at any cost. The men also want an end to the shooting, but we must have a solution with dignity." Said a housewife as she trailed her small daughter by the hand through the local supermarket: "The whole thing is out of control. It's like determined children stamping their feet. Surely there are some grownups around on both sides who can talk in serious fashion, without guns...
Exxon had envisioned Battlement Mesa, which housed 1,800, as a bustling city for 25,000. Some 65 homes and apartments have been completed, and more than 250 are under construction. Two schools, a recreation complex, a golf course, a supermarket and a shopping center are also unfinished. Though Exxon has not yet decided what to do about Battlement Mesa, the townspeople fear that most of the buildings will never be completed. Said Ray Guerrie, president of the town's First National Bank: "I just hope we can weather this crisis." Last week his tiny bank was packed with...