Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long will the nation's gentler, easier mood last? Few people are searching for the answer. Says Atlanta Assistant Store Manager Norbert Stanislav: "There is always some dark presence around the corner if you look for it, but nobody's looking for it." Hail tranquillity...
...family. A couple of singles recorded during his days off led to his only album so far, My Aim Is True. When CBS Records executives came to town last July for their international convention, Costello grabbed his guitar, rushed over to the London Hilton and staged a street-corner audition. Although the police promptly arrested him, the Columbia execs eventually offered him a contract...
...Goodman. C.H.H. also would gain geographically: Field stores cover the Midwest while Carter Hawley's sales come mainly from the Sunbelt. Field's earnings have been depressed in recent years by vigorous and not entirely successful expansion. Yet the company has a good chance of turning the corner under the management of President Angelo Arena, ironically an alumnus of Neiman-Marcus, which he headed until this fall...
...Perhaps the most secret document of the Carter Administration is locked away in Zbigniew Brzezinski's files in his corner office at the White House...
Oddly, this upsurge in home cooking comes at a time when Americans are eating out more often than ever before. With increasing numbers of women at work, and with fast food readily available at almost any street corner or crossroads, the average family is spending as much as 25% of its annual food budget (a nationwide total of $215 billion a year) on restaurant and instant meals?which also have greatly improved in recent years. It may be that when family and friends get together for a home-cooked dinner, they pit their skills against the pros and make...