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Agran's greatest acclaim as mayor came when hethrust Irvine into the national spotlight with aseries of successful environmental conservationprograms...
Opening Day was Friday and the first pitch was received with wide acclaim: "cocktail size" pizza bagels, a taste of Deli Day with (truly) kosher style-pickles and half-sour tomatoes, the requisite box of matzo and a bit of Israeli flavor with Elite vanilla-flavored wafers. Berry really did something right by getting hold of beef franks in bagel dough, produced in Spring Valley, NY, home of Hillel Chair Shai A. Held '94. How better to butter up a constituency...
...Harvard, Berry's driven personality and high standards have earned him the acclaim of students, who laud the reforms--from sandwich bars to greater entree variety--he has brought to their dining halls...
Past tours with such established L.A. metal groups as Lynch Mob and Kik Tracee enabled them to steadily build their reputation in California, but now the band is gaining national acclaim...
...success has not come accompanied by generally favorable reviews. "Reviewers look at women's commercial fiction in a different light [compared to men's commercial fiction]," Goudge said, commenting on the mixed response of critics, charges: She is bitter that "military potboilers" written by men like Tom Clancy receive acclaim while her own "romantic potboilers" are merely accorded snide remarks...