Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next time you are in Texas to obtain the best ice cream in the world, which is made by the Blue Bell Creameries of Washington County, between Austin and Houston. Texans admit that this is true. President Ed Kruse says, "We don't regard our ice cream as gourmet as such but rather as just a damn good product." He starts telling a story about a lady from Anderson, Texas, who moved to the wilds of California and had a friend regularly ship her Blue Bell's damn good product by commercial airliner. Have we heard this story...
...start Hollender was as relentless in recruiting instructors as he is in attracting students. He would walk into a gourmet shop and ask the owner to teach a course in opening a food store. But today experts come to him asking to teach; he accepts only 10% to 15% of the applicants. Teachers earn an average of $30 to $40 an hour, and can make as much as $12,000 a year teaching one course a week. But for many the rewards are more than monetary. Says Rand: "Anyone who works hard all day and enrolls in this kind...
...other hand, when it sees an advantage in doing so, Air Florida will happily offer quite extravagant extras to promote itself on competitive routes. On the line's Miami-to-London run, gourmet foods and vintage wines become part of what the carrier terms its upper-class service. Upon arriving at Gatwick Airport, 25 miles outside London, the plane's disembarking upper-class passengers are whisked free of charge into town in a convoy of chauffeured Rolls-Royces provided by the airline...
...when the story proved to be false. Kaufman believes in personal as well as financial discipline: he has no hobbies and rises regularly at 5:55 a.m. to reach his office by 7:30. But he still has hints of flair, including a taste for mod double-breasted suits, gourmet restaurants and vintage wines...
Nearly all ships of foreign registry (major exception: Norway's) have installed casinos, and virtually all bristle with one-armed bandits. Americans' heightened interest in gourmet cuisine has also been exploited by several lines that serve four whopping meals a day-the usual three plus a midnight buffet. On many ships, the dining rooms and menus aspire no higher than Howard Johnsonian...