Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often than ever before. With increasing numbers of women at work, and with fast food readily available at almost any street corner or crossroads, the average family is spending as much as 25% of its annual food budget (a nationwide total of $215 billion a year) on restaurant and instant meals?which also have greatly improved in recent years. It may be that when family and friends get together for a home-cooked dinner, they pit their skills against the pros and make it a repast to remember...
E.A.T., a pricey Manhattan food specialty shop (with a branch in Troy, Mich.), flies in Arava melons ($4 each) from Israel, eight varieties of wild mushrooms ($8 to $15 per Ib.) from France and white truffles ($17.50 per oz.) from Italy. Such delicacies are instant sellouts, boosting E.A.T.'s gross 50% (to $1.5 million) over last year's total...
Even Boston, home of the bean and the cod, has fallen prey to creeping gourmandise. Quincy Market, the city's elegantly renovated 550-ft.-long hall of food stalls, worried investors when it opened last year; it became an instant smash. While Washington, D.C., has traditionally esteemed the catered affair above the cookin, hostesses, bureaucrats, housewives ?and fathers with small children in tow?form long lines as early as 8 a.m. for the twice-weekly sales of the Montgomery Farm Woman's Cooperative Market in Bethesda, Md., all of whose members must own at least three acres of productive...
Unexpected events created by instant diplomacy no longer seemed impossible after Sadat's trip to Jerusalem. By his visit and a tough but compassionate speech to the Knesset, he had acknowledged Israel's right to exist in a way few Jews ever expected from an Arab leader. He and Premier Menachem Begin had made a mutual pledge: "No more war." The Egyptian President made it clear that this promise was a conditional one-namely that there would be no more war if Israel accepted a peace agreement that included the return of all Arab territories occupied since...
...drama critic of the New York Times was stripped of his theater post last March. Enter Australian Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, who hired Barnes for his afternoon paper, the New York Post. Says the Oxford-educated Barnes: "Anyone attached to the New York Times has a kind of instant credibility and instant glamour. One wonders how much that is a cloak bestowed by the paper and how much it is one's own. I felt it was more challenging to be without the Times rather than with the Times." Better yet, Barnes gets back on the aisle...