Word: gourmets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than one point, Ted Turner made impassioned pleas to his board to keep the faith and vote positively on the deal. As the talks dragged on into Thursday night, gourmet Chinese food was served. But by 9 p.m. the directors needed a break. Reconvening at 7 a.m. on Friday, they finally moved to a vote after 8 a.m., little more than an hour before Wall Street opened for business. By a vote of 6 to 0 (nine abstained) the deal was approved. TBS would allow itself to be purchased by Time Warner. At that, Turner jumped up from...
...spots made him an icon of, well, pure corn: the crisp bow tie, the Alfalfa-style hair, the good-natured geekiness. But beneath this hayseed hucksterism, Orville Redenbacher was the Luther Burbank of popcorn. The decades he devoted to the staple food of double features produced a gourmet hybrid that exploded to twice the size and twice the sales of its competitors...
Herrell's is located at 15 Dunster St. At $1.95for a relatively small serving, Herrell's ispricey. But the ice cream is gourmet...
...Nickleby's in Columbus, Ohio, owner Palmer Cook maintains an antique tub for children to play in, as well as a bakery. One of the nation's best-regarded bookstores, Tattered Cover in Denver, bumped its biography and cooking sections off the first floor last November to accommodate a gourmet snack bar where visitors down cannoli and blueberry cheesecake while they pore over the latest hardcovers. Earlier this month owner Joyce Meskis went a step further and opened a swank restaurant on the store's fourth floor, offering specialties like vegetable torta and grilled venison...
...fact, Harvard's gourmet meal didn't go unnoticed by the 'outside world...