Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Workers, quietly marking the first anniversary of Solidarity, must cope with new price hikes of 300 to 400 perscent for bread and other food items...
...Reagan dined happily with his family on turkey, corn-bread dressing and mince pie at his Santa Barbara ranch, the frayed tempers and bruised feelings of congressional leaders also began to mend. On reflection, the great budget battle was probably as unnecessary as it was unseemly. The confrontation had centered on a matter of roughly $2 billion, a totally symbolic figure since it represented a mere .28% of the $700 billion budget for fiscal 1982, which is running $80 billion in the red. Not only will the $2 billion have to be fought over once again between...
...remains the leading producer of semiconductor chips, those tiny silicon-based flakes that are the all-important components of computer circuitry. But profits from this bread-and-butter portion of the company's business are being pummeled by an economic slump in the U.S. and Europe. Because demand for computer parts has dropped sharply, the entire microchip industry is suffering from serious overcapacity that has resulted in fierce price-cutting competition...
...mill night before Thanksgiving, the cold has done little to ameliorate the midnight-to-two rush. The flow of down jackets and Harvard scarves is steady, interrupted by the occasional serious shopper who asks where the bread is. A neighborhood denizen is brusque, insensitive to ambiance: "I only come here because it's open later than the bars." Shoppers look only mildly embarrassed when someone they know meets them buying bagsful of Brach's Circus Peanuts. But one student is muttering. "God I hate this place, I really hate...
...wife Bernice. Then Lou strung together a number-31422242529, from childhood-and gambled $1 on New York's Lotto game. Two days later Eisenberg learned he had won $5 million, reportedly the largest lottery prize in history. His first reaction: "Fifty-three years I'm eating bread, and I want to eat cake." For a guy like Lou, though, old habits die hard. After he won, he ambled into work, said nothing and resumed his normal routine, deciding to quit only after he asked himself: "What kind of a nut am I? Who walks around screwing in light...