Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wheels her cart down supermarket aisles, Barbara Harris is stunned. "When people say that inflation has been checked," says the Los Angeles public relations consultant, "I listen in shock and disbelief. Just today I went across the street to get a loaf of bread, and it was $1.43. I was floored." Although Harris, 40, sticks to a tight budget and avoids stocking up on frills, the weekly grocery bill for her family of three has climbed from $80 to $100 in the past year. That 25% hike is nearly six times as great as the modest increase in the Consumer...
...healthy diets can become a form of skirmishing. Television Producer Irwin Rosten now asks his guests what they do and do not eat when he invites them to dinner; this can get quite complicated when the guests not only observe various religious dietary rules but shun salt or white bread or refined sugar. So many have given up red meat that Stacey Winkler no longer serves it unless she knows in advance that all her guests eat it. At large dinners, she says, she offers several smaller dishes at each course. Says Annenberg: "Some people are like nannies, saying...
...folk music, and highlights of music festivals from Bayreuth to Spoleto. APR takes its culture-vulturing seriously: with 70% of its programming consisting of classical music, it is the arty counterpart to its older and bigger Washington cousin, the public-affairs-oriented National Public Radio, APR'S bread-and-butter is broadcasting local cultural programming across the country via satellite. Indeed, through its Los Angeles affiliate, the network broadcast 20 events of the Olympic Arts Festival in full, including three Royal Opera performances. And they have done it all on a shoe-string budget of $775,000, with...
...dismissed these books as little more than jumped-up man-in-the-street interviews, strong on emotion and weak on critical framework. The public disagreed. Let the eggheads collect cut-glass generalizations from Tocqueville and Toynbee. Folks read Studs to find out what it was really like on the bread lines and assembly lines...
Starting in the 1960s, corporate America went on a binge of conglomerate building. Companies pursued mergers and acquisitions with abandon, creating business empires that often manufactured hundreds of diverse products, from bread to computers. Many companies have begun to doubt the theory that management expertise in one field means success in another. Such huge combines as ITT, Gulf & Western and RCA have been selling holdings to streamline operations. Last week, in one of the biggest divestitures to date, R.J. Reynolds Industries, the second-largest U.S. cigarette manufacturer, took a back-to-basics step by selling its energy businesses to Phillips...