Word: bakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while John E. Dough '02 may be accepted to Harvard after his moist deluxe walnut brownies win the Betty Crocker Bake-Off three years in a row, the admissions process realizes that Dough may get fed up with his baking sheets once on campus...
...quandary facing middle-class parents across the U.S. With state and local governments slashing public-school budgets, parents often face an unhappy choice: supplement their children's creaky classrooms with their own cash or stick the kids in pricier, more exclusive private schools. While parents have long held bake sales and sold raffle tickets to drum up extra funds for local schools, fund raising today is growing more elaborate and controversial. In Bowie, Md., a nonprofit foundation set up by parents is helping finance a $5 million auditorium. In Winchester, Mass., the Foundation for Educational Excellence dispenses...
...also noted that the store had to bake three batches of cookies yesterday, whereas it normally only bakes one batch...
Next on the list is Apple's fuzzy marketing message. (Quick: Can you think of it?) Jobs dismissed Apple's ad agency and held a "bake-off" for the account among three firms. The winner was TBWA Chiat/Day, the company that created Apple's legendary 1984 Super Bowl ad (only to be fired). Jobs is wildly enthusiastic about the new ad, which features the theme "Think Differently," but when he plays it for his inner team at the Castle Tuesday night, the group nixes it as not ready for prime time. Look for it soon, however. "There's a germ...
Chemically, the decay that Cline so dramatically presents is due to the "acid paper" books were printed on beginning in the 1800s up until the 1950s. But exacerbating the acid paper problem--which causes the books literally to bake--is the lack of climate control in the stacks...