Word: breads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumer ideal does not necessarily extend beyond my own American experience. My assumptions of consumer/retail conduct are culturally grounded. The image of clean, bright-eyed, smiling salespeople looking up to the next person in line with a cheery, "Can I help you?" is as blatantly American as the white bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which I sometimes bring to work...
...shot was incredibly accurate and rarelyfailed him. His quality showed against thetoughest opponents with at least two goals againstBrown, Princeton and Notre Dame. Crofton'sconnection with Ferrucci was uncanny at alltimes--their bread-and-butter was a give-and-goplay from the top which always seemed to work fora shot...
...great things about the magazine is that it has dedicated itself to not being beholden to any ideology," Cohn agrees. "The bread and butter has always been about being an unorthodox magazine with different ideas. Ideology doesn't come before reality--there's sensibility behind everything...
...Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly appears from time to time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers in New Haven, Conn.; or Chicano gangbangers in the Yakima Valley of Washington State; or piney-woods country people in East Texas; or, finally, among forlornly vicious white junior Nazis, feral and bored to death, in Antelope...
...companies and hotel chains can accommodate without cutting off their paying customers. Hotel rooms and airline seats are increasingly--and exasperatingly--scarce during peak travel times, which makes it harder and harder for travelers to redeem their points in the traditional fashion, even though such offerings are still the bread and butter of frequent-travel programs. With the average travel-frequency program costing $25 million to maintain, travel suppliers know they had better offer alternatives to their members, who may be shut out of award redemptions during popular travel seasons. So the trick is to find other ways to meet...