Word: delis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just off JFK St. is Pinocchio's, affectionately dubbed. Noch's by its patrons. The verb form is to noch--usage: It was Chinese deli night at the dining hall so around midnight I went noching (rhymes with toking). Noch's features a variety of subs and pasta in addition to pizza, but the real attraction is the square-cut, thick-doughed Sicilian-style slices. According to Manager Adam DiCenso, Sicilian slices of pepperoni have been the most popular item for years, but the newer tomato basil topping (my personal choice) is also doing well. Plain pizza is $1.50, Sicilian...
Dershowitz, who was introduced as "the only Harvard professor to run a deli in the Square," became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard's history...
Before this is over, we're all going to lose our shirts. You. Me. The cabbie talking about his mutual funds. The guy behind the deli counter reading Barron's. My "fully invested" barber. The suits on Wall Street. They can afford it. But oh, yes, they'll pay too. We're all floating on the same bubble...
...rising tide is making the minimum wage disappear in some areas. Schnuck Markets, a 92-store grocery chain based in St. Louis, is using bounties to fill 350 vacancies ranging from bagger to deli worker. Schnuck gives $10 gift certificates to employees whose referrals are hired; plus $50 to the employee and new worker after 90 days; plus another $50 to the newcomer after six months and yet another after a year. But it's still hard to hold help in a region where the boom in tourism and riverboat gambling lets workers quit jobs on Friday and find...
...humid weekday afternoon in Washington. Seven men were sitting in the spare, modern living room of Bob Squier's Capitol Hill town house making tense small talk, eating deli sandwiches, sipping diet sodas and herbal tea. Although the debonair media consultant was the nominal host, the meeting had been called by Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's stealth strategist. Morris had been secretly advising the President for six months and had emerged from the shadows only in April. Now Clinton had asked him to assemble the campaign's creative team. But despite Clinton's endorsement, Morris' position inside the White House...