Word: caked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was a chastening moral here: that money was the root of all Ewings. But, really, Dallas was what it criticized. Endlessly fascinated with the lives of the rich and pretty, the show looked rich and pretty too, like a Black Forest cake. With sumptuous production values and characters who spent every available petrodollar, Dallas elevated conspicuous consumption to a secular religion: gaud almighty. It introduced viewers to the Greedy '80s, by establishing as a pop icon a Texas oilman who believed it's not what you get that matters, it's what you can get away with. In that...
...acquisition reflects P&G's drive to become as formidable in beauty . products as it is in packaged goods from cake mixes to disposable diapers. The company ventured into cosmetics with the 1985 purchase of Richardson-Vicks, maker of Oil of Olay skin-care creams and lotions. In 1989 it acquired Noxell, whose products include the Cover Girl and Clarion cosmetics and toiletries lines. But while P&G racked up about $500 million in sales of beauty products last year, the business was largely confined to the U.S. market. The latest deal will raise the company's beauty revenues...
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Yale did their best to make it a game in the second half, but they never got closer than four goals. A Berkery goal at 20:25 put the Crimson up 7-1 and it looked like there was icing on a very sweet Ivy cake...
After four years at Harvard, I have come to expect the most ridiculous assertions from the ultra-right pro-Israeli faction on campus. But Yvette Alt takes the cake. She has proven that even a Harvard education cannot prevent pro-Israeli zealots from reaching new heights of absurdity...