Word: cater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jacobson, the Ralph Nader of the fast-food industry, thinks McDonald's ought to offer some broiled food instead of fried, and points out that the company has been slow to offer such low-fat fare as baked potatoes and salad bars. But McDonald's is finally starting to cater to the salad set. Right now the company is testing prepackaged, freshly assembled salads in about 40% of its U.S. outlets. The flavors: chef's, shrimp, garden or chicken oriental...
China's system of restaurant organization seems to cater to foreigners and to take great pains to please them. Restaurants are generally laid out on two - or three levels. The street level offers the simplest food at the lowest prices, as well as poor sanitary conditions that usually include cuspidors near all tables. The second floor is slightly cleaner, has a larger menu and somewhat higher prices, though it is primarily frequented by Chinese. Most foreigners are shown to the top floor for pre-ordered meals at the highest prices and in what the Chinese consider the most attractive surroundings...
Scoop to Nuts, located on 85 Mt. Auburn St., opened last Friday just in time to cater to the crunch of shoppers looking for special Christmas gifts, said the store's owner Allan S. Barnett...
Unfortunately, it is naive to look at this incident as simply an isolated case of insensitive journalism. Tabloids cater to the whims and prejudices of their readers. The Daily News knows it can sell papers that read "HOW JENNIFER COURTED DEATH" because that's what the readers want to believe. And Richard Chambers knows, at least unconsciously, that only in a society that views female sexuality in the way ours does is it possible to plead innocence because Levin "got rough during...
...Anyone who wants to do sports and economics should not be penalized," said Krishna. True, but neither should Harvard cater to the athlete's every whim. That classes will occassionally run into practice time should be a given at an institution that intends to be a university, not a training camp. The fault lies not with the athletes, but with a department that fawns over them...