Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million was one of Pepsi's Top 10 global markets. The relationship was cushioned by the friendship between PepsiCo boss Enrico and Oswaldo Cisneros, CEO of Embotelladras Hit de Venezuela, the Pepsi bottler there. But Cisneros became a Coke convert for a reported price of $300 million, a whopping chunk of cash for half interest in the business. The swiftness of the deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo Cisneros was my friend. He sent me four lawyers and a judge to tell me this was over." Cisneros cited Pepsi's lack of commitment...
...reason taxes became a sharper issue is that prosperity had moved so many wage earners into the middle class, lunch-pail Democrats turned two-car suburbanites. Then inflation pushed them into ever higher marginal brackets. That immense new middle class began focusing on what government took from them, a chunk of their paychecks, instead of the things it gave them, like student loans and government-backed mortgages. In 1978 California produced the tax revolt that culminated in Proposition 13, a 57% cut in property taxes. That same year Kemp and Delaware Senator William Roth Jr. proposed a 30% across...
...crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, salvage work is continuing on the remains of TWA's flight 800. Ten bodies were recovered on Thursday, leaving only 46 of 230 victims unaccounted for. Also pulled from the ocean was a 40-foot long piece of the plane's fuselage, the largest chunk recovered so far. No explosive residue has been found yet on any of the recovered pieces. The FBI and NTSB still say they have not gathered enough forensic evidence to explain why the plane exploded in mid-air. The remains of the 350,000 ton aircraft are scattered over...
...come-on-down atmosphere seems downright phony to some critics--especially to the owners and devotees of older, established blues clubs that are competing with HOB franchises. "The House of Blues has taken a pretty big chunk of the blues market," laments Bill Benoit, entertainment manager at the Tam, a blues joint in Brookline, Massachusetts, near Cambridge. "They have the name, and they have the power to book bigger acts more regularly, but there's also sort of a prepackaged feel that goes with the club...
...already claimed a chunk of Christmas in 1995 with her Home for the Holidays TV special featuring Hillary Clinton. Many people ceded Easter to her after 1994, when she counseled readers to celebrate by taking a fresh ham, roasting it for five hours and serving it garnished with organically grown grass that had been cut early that morning with the dew still on it. Never mind that most of her magazine's 5 million readers still buy the honey-baked version at Boston Market or, horrors!, take it out of a can. Even the subscribers who don't work...