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...inch-thick recipe book called "the Bible." With an IBM computer keeping close tabs on supplies and customer preferences, Morrison's holds losses from spoilage and leftovers to a scant 2%. Similar precision governs food display: on the serving line, such higher-profit extras as shrimp cocktail and strawberry shortcake always come first, on the theory that hungry customers are most apt to buy them before they get their meat and potatoes...
...development corporation that gave him design and financial control right from the start. As a result, he was able to demonstrate his concept of "exploded space," by which he means dramatizing the flow and interpenetration of space from one area to the next. In Hyatt House, the elevated cocktail lounge is defined within the great interior court by an umbrella-like cover suspended from the ceiling; the man in the bar can still see the glass-bubble elevators whizzing up and down the court's columns and the fountain jetting high into the lobby from two stories below...
...convivial gimmickry of $100-a-plate dinners and rah-rah cocktail parties, both Democrats and Republicans find it difficult to fill campaign fund quotas without dunning donors. Imaginatively seeking to solve the problem - and dissolve an $80,000 election year deficit - the Massachusetts Republican Party last week put out a picture-and-prose paean to the Bay State entitled Massachusetts - The Anatomy of Quality...
...mind after being denounced by Black Power advocates. " 'I'm sick of being called a genocidal maniac!' young Sidney shouted. 'Sh-sh,' cautioned his mother. 'The liberals next door may hear you, and then we won't get invited to any more cocktail parties.' 'I'm sick of living in this liberal ghetto,' young Sidney said. 'Why don't we move out of here into a nice reactionary neighborhood where people can hate other people instead of themselves?' Old Charles Darnay groaned. You could tell...
...also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party panjandrum who once arrived at embassy cocktail parties with his chauffeur, now drives up himself-or comes by streetcar or on foot until he can learn to drive...