Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uptown Italian trattoria. In San Francisco, Sterrett Brandt, 30, until recently traffic coordinator at U.S. Recycling Industries, says she wouldn't hesitate to order chocolate tortes or cheesecake when treated to a business lunch. "Since I'm not paying, the calories don't really count," she rationalizes. In Chicago, Donna Needy, 41, a casualty-company exec, begins each weekday with a healthy dose of high-fiber Metamucil powder and follows up with a strict 900-calorie diet. But, she confesses, "the 900 calories can be anything: ice cream or Fannie May lemon butter creams...
...House in Monterey, Calif. Ten years ago, only 25% to 30% of diners in his restaurants ordered dessert. Now, says Picot, as many as 70% of Florida customers and 80% of those in California are indulging. Boston's Ritz-Carlton hotel and Shaw's Crab House in Chicago confirm the trend: dessert sales at both are up about 15% over last year...
Dukakis was making his way from New York to Kentucky and then to Illinois for one of the sacred rites of Democratic politics, a torchlight parade through Chicago...
...eight medical school students is clinically depressed, two Chicago researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...study, which followed 121 students at Chicago's Rush Medical College, found that 12 percent of the doctors in training suffer from clinical depression, which causes sleep disturbance, pessimism and a sense of failure. Only five percent of the general population is believed to have the disease, the researchers said...