Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now, all these are among the half a dozen or so eating concepts being tested in pilot restaurants around the country in the hope that they will grow up to be the new-age McDonald's, Bob's Big Boys or Howard Johnsons. Such national restaurant chains are made, not born. Dreamed up by corporate entrepreneurs, they are produced by high-priced, savvy market researchers, advertising gurus, graphic designers and architects -- as well as by food consultants who cook up portion-controlled, idiot-proof recipes to feed the projected image. Owing more to McLuhan than to Escoffier, their packages...
...sitting on a pure, white beach, gazing out on the water as windsurfers leisurely float by. A nearby radio is playing Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds." As you take a sip of your drink, you notice a group of people walking along the beach in bathing suits. The women look like Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, the men like Chippendale dancers...
...week or so ago, I was coach 'Horn.' I was everybody's buddy. Now I walk in and I'm the man with the stick. You got to let them know who's in charge. This is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship."--Arizona interim basketball Coach Bob Schermerhorn...
...Bob Broeg, a veteran sportswriter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, recalls an interview in 1964 that capsules White. St. Louis was ten games behind Philadelphia at midseason. Would he comment on the problems if Broeg pledged to exclude his name? "No," White said. "I won't comment unless you do use my name. I'm the problem. The RBI man hasn't been knocking in any runs." After that he started knocking them in by the bushel, and the Cards made up 6 1/2 games on the Phils in the final two weeks and went...
...hope people don't think that there is any kind of preferential treatment toward me or that I've got some kind of an advantage," says Zachary, who is also the grandson of comedian Bob Hope. "People have often made premature judgments based on my family...