Word: cater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murphy and her teammates as a strong Yale squad arrives at the IAB for a 5 p.m. showdown. The Eli women excel at long events in contrast to the Radcliffe swimmers, who stand out mostly in the sprints. Since the format of this meet has been altered to cater to long distance events, the home team may have serious problems...
While thus dispensing general guidance, Federated gives its divisions wide latitude to follow whatever merchandising strategies best cater to widely varying styles, tastes and incomes in each store's territory. In particular, Cincinnati headquarters has allowed Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale...
...separate "international chili cook-offs" this month-one held in Texas, the other in southern California-the "dish that won the West" inspired more culinary variations and impassioned claims than there are spines on a cactus. Those who cater to chili addicts are as contentious as their customers, but they agree on at least one fact: the growing and packaging of peppers and chili products have become a multimillion-dollar industry...
Servants of a dead pharaoh were sometimes sealed in the tombs with the royal remains so that they could cater their master's needs in the hereafter. There may have been a more worldly reason as well: entombed servants could not publish their memoirs. Had the dynasties lasted as long as the pyramids, the world might have been spared the reminiscences of Eisenhower's butler, Jacqueline Kennedy's White House cook and, most recently, the man who changed the light bulbs and walked the dogs for Lyndon Johnson...
Theorem No. 2: The only programs a grownup can possibly stand are those intended for children. Or, more properly, those that cater to those preadolescent fantasies that most have never truly abandoned. The Six Million Dollar Man is a well-established example of this innocent merriment. While the children get off on their superman fantasies, Mom and Pop may mull the sexual problems and possibilities inherent in a creature who is half man, half Timex...