Word: chickening
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Buffet lunch, including fried chicken, beans and apple cobbler, the Front Porch restaurant, Yellville (home of Whitewater land records...
...afford to let Blockbuster get away, because Redstone needed the video chain's financial clout to defeat Diller and then help pay interest on the debt after the Paramount merger. So Greenhill, whose firm earned $12.5 million for advising Viacom, resorted to a game of high-stakes financial chicken. He allowed the Blockbuster talks to break off rather than accede to Berrard's demands. At the same time, Greenhill instructed Levitt to maintain contact with his pal Berrard. The strategy paid off on Christmas Day, when Levitt, calling from New Jersey on his Jeep Cherokee car phone, got Berrard...
Lyndon Johnson used to say that a good politician can "make chicken salad out of chicken s." Judged by that recipe, Bill Clinton is a master -- at least rhetorically. Consider last Wednesday, when the President dealt with two substantively unrelated issues, one foreign, one domestic...
Lunch is the Club's busiest meal--manyprofessors, one assumes, choose to breakfast andsup elsewhere. The majority of offerings mimicthose available in many an American restaurant:chicken cutlets, turkey burgers, reuben sandwichesand their culinary...
...insisted on carrying the bicycle onto the sidewalk and locking it for me. We also stopped by the trendiest fast-food stand in the city, where after waiting in a very long line, my cousins treated my American taste buds to "kente"--a transliteration of Kentucky--fried chicken. They asked me how the whole chicken (neck and head included), deep-fried and seasoned with five spice, compared with the Colonel's. The Chinese kind tasted much better, I said...