Word: creaming
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George Bush has more home states than Steve's has ice cream flavors. He can't make up his mind whether he's really a son of Massachusetts (where he was born), or Texas (where he's registered to vote) or Maine (where he owns a home), Connecticut (where he attended Yale) or Washington, D.C.--where he resides when he's not attending funerals. Voters who heckled about Gary Hartpence's name-change will also be turned off by Bush's favorite-son strategy...
...Disney team sees endless possibilities for its empire -- a new Disneyland in South America or Asia; a new American theme park based on the workplace, where visitors would watch ice cream, baseball bats and computer chips being made. Muses Roy Disney: "I suspect my father and uncle would be pleased with the direction we're going. The world has changed to the point where they'd probably be doing a lot of the same things." That portends well for the Eisner regime. "I see myself here forever," says Eisner. Inevitably, though, another new crew of Disnoids will be taking over...
Bruegger's Boston area shops will celebrate three years in the Hub area this weekend by giving away one free bagel with cream cheese to every customer who wishes the store a happy birthday, store workers said yesterday...
British students also consume more alcohol. The drinking age in England is only 18, so alcohol can play an official role in campus social life than in the United States, fellows say. "At Cambridge, students will get plastered every night. In America they go out and have ice cream. A lot of the student life there revolves around alcohol. Freshmen are legal, so we always have wine and sherry at formal dinners," Hurst says...
Postmaster General Frank opposes any move to end the Postal Service's monopoly on first-class and third-class mail. Private firms, he argues, are no substitute for a universal postal service, since they tend to skim the cream off the market, serving well-to-do customers in urban areas but ignoring people in thinly populated regions. Frank admits that the Postal Service could do a better job. One way to help it do so, he says, is increased capital spending to expand facilities and modernize antiquated equipment. If Congress makes that investment possible, Frank is convinced, postal workers...