Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough, as home-meal replacement. You know it better as the store-bought, ready-to-eat food that is supposed to taste as if Mom made it. Foodini's is part of the evolving, highly moveable feast that has become dinner, catering to a country that wants its food fast but restaurant-quality fresh. "I work, my husband works, my daughter dances and plays soccer, and my son plays baseball," says Jan Tulk, an attorney, during her fourth trip to Foodini's. "I'd say I end up cooking about half the time. The rest of the week...
Credit Boston Market (formerly Boston Chicken) with fomenting the HMR decade. The company, which first featured rotisserie chicken, transformed the notion of fast food by serving the kind of fare one would expect to come piping hot out of the kitchen oven but instead comes straight out of a ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat package. "We offer traditional food that people would cook at home if they had the time or the inclination," says Keith Robinson, chief marketing officer at Boston Market. "It's convenient, accessible, pretty affordable and easier than going to the supermarket. Our competition...
...used to capture voice clips or, eventually, even to record simultaneously a digital version of your film picture. For now, APS picture quality is roughly the same as 35-mm film. And like 35 mm, APS is available in different film speeds to match varying light conditions or snare fast-action shots. (As a rule, the slower the film speed, the sharper the resolution.) A note to travelers: APS film can be hard to find outside the U.S. and Japan, so stock up before leaving on that trip to foreign shores...
...historic browser--the software that took the cold gray wonkish world of the Internet and made it multimedia, rendering the Net usable by millions--had at its peak accounted for 85% of the market. Now it has, at best, a 55%-to-60% share, and that's slipping fast. Its stock, which once soared above $85 a share (adjusted for a 2-for-1 stock split), lost nearly half its value during a three-month period and hit bottom at $14.87. In January, Netscape laid off about 400 employees, nearly 15% of its work force. What choice did it have...
...into a new dimension. When I heard this, I thought, "Aha, there's proof of what I have been saying: talking to yourself is just a way of thinking things over, of processing ideas through articulation, a sort of audible shadowboxing. The deaf woman turns her brain waves into fast-forward hand dancing. Same thing." As a writer, I talk to myself in order to try out ideas--a rough draft recited to the pigeons--before writing them down. A playwright must speak the lines aloud. What's crazy about that...