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...factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket has been virtually stripped bare during the holiday season; even eggs have become a rarity. Says Maria: "All we find now is tea and vinegar...
...subordinates who do not meet his expectations: "I don't like laziness or sloppiness or slovenliness." After World War II, he joined Merrill Lynch, became its president in 1968 and chairman in 1971. Under his leadership, the firm, already biggest in the U.S. securities industry, became a financial supermarket with thriving new lines of business in insurance, real estate and consumer lending. Having accomplished what he set out to do, Regan had begun to think of stepping down. Two years ago he and his wife Ann, who have four grown children, bought a house in Mount Vernon...
Five Harvard students, together with a United Farm Workers (UFW) protest coordinator, last night presented the management of the Fresh Pond Stop and Shop supermarket with a petition signed by 240 Harvard students requesting that the store stop selling Red Coach brand lettuce...
This year's poor harvests and rising prices have also hit sugar. Since January, the cost of the sweetener has increased at the supermarket by about 90%, to 88? per lb. Part of the squeeze traces to Eastern Europe, where very heavy spring and summer rains soured the sugar-beet harvest. That has forced both the Soviet Union and Poland to buy heavily in world markets...
...must take more than a recession to dampen demand for English rhubarb and fig preserves or reindeer meatballs from Norway. Though inflation has forced supermarket shoppers to cut corners and frantically clip coupons, gourmet food shops that cater to the sophisticated palate have never been busier...