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...Insulting Interviewers' Alma Mater.Don't say, "When we played you in football, we sat on your faces! We ate you for lunch!" Avoid anything resembling a victory dance. And in the rare instance your interviewer graduated from Yale, try to control your pity...
...example of a literary and intellectual way of life that will never again flourish in American society. More than anything else, the diary succeeds in conveying the network of personal and professional ties that bound together the elites from many different worlds into a close-knit bunch that ate and drank, gossiped and traveled together despite ideological differences...
...trainees have learned everything from how to wash windows and mop floors to the proper way to assemble a Big Mac. Customers have some learning to do too. Because Soviets are unaccustomed to eating finger food, many of those invited to a preview disassembled the Big Mak and ate it layer by layer. Despite the cultural hurdles, Cohon is enthusiastic about the huge potential market and optimistic about the adaptability of the people. Says he: "Soviet kids win a lot of medals in the Olympics. We can train them to work in McDonald...
...cases, a few obviously selected for comic relief: the New York teenager, for example, who questioned the constitutionality of the income tax in a letter published in the Buffalo Courier-Express. Suspecting criminal noncompliance, 15 agents tailed the boy for four days, discovering that he talked to his mailman, ate pizza and read pornographic magazines. True, he never filed a tax form, but, then, he was still a dependent with no income...
...serve as a dietary oracle. Too often scientific ground shifts, and today's notion of sound nutritional advice becomes tomorrow's myth. The latest case in point: oat bran. Two years ago, the high-fiber grain was elevated to alimentary sainthood after a few studies showed that people who ate a diet rich in the stuff enjoyed a significant drop in their cholesterol levels. Doctors began recommending the grain to patients, and food manufacturers rushed to add it to everything from muffins to tortilla chips...