Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard finished the Connecticut River course in the fast time of 5:44, cooking up a pair of "well done" Dartmouth and MIT crews in the process...
...like to run by myself," Mota said. "I just look at the time and concentrate on the time and try to run as fast...
...heard going into the race that Brown had a very fast crew and expected to beat us," West said. "They had their boat together four weeks before the race. If we push as hard as we can every practice, we're not going to get any slower. There's nothing to do but improve...
...takes hustle like the delivery boy's to get ahead these days in the pizza business, where competition is as red hot as a pie straight from the oven. The pizza segment of the fast-food industry, overshadowed in the past by the marketing battles among the hamburger chains, has sprung to life with speedy- delivery contests, price wars and new-product campaigns. "It's an all-out conflagration," says Charles Henderson, vice president of marketing for Godfather's Pizza, the fifth largest U.S. chain (586 outlets). "This will make burger wars look like a neighborhood skirmish." Rather than fight...
...stakes in the pie fight are high. Even as growth in fast-food sales (1987 U.S. total: $56 billion) is slowing, pizza purchases are booming. Americans will spend an estimated $15 billion on pizza this year, more than twice what they spent just five years ago. As pizza has become more popular, the chains have seemingly sprinkled their outlets on every street corner: Pizza Hut, the largest, has more than 5,400 outlets in the U.S. and 6,200 worldwide. Even McDonald's has test-marketed a pie, McPizza. With so much competition, "it's not enough anymore just...