Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motels inspired them to say, "We can and must learn a lot from the example of the American 'overnight industry.''" They found that Cokes "really did make things go better," so they drank 300 of them. As for catsup, they claimed that it turns "every meal tastier." They added: "What happened to catsup in the Soviet Union...
...expert in the hard sell who quickly realized that the company's 21 barnlike Automats and cafeterias were out of step with the times (the first was opened in 1904) and had often become a refuge for derelicts seeking a cheap, hot meal and oldsters wanting to drowse away an afternoon over coffee, cake and the newspaper. Guterman has jazzed up the operation with everything from rock concerts to waitresses on roller skates, and his approach so far has worked. The company, whose annual sales in 1972 totaled $16.9 million, last week reported a first-quarter operating profit...
Night life for him means his concert, or a small meal and game of bridge with friends. He abhors the violence on American TV-but is consumed by the violence of English football. When in London he can regularly be found watching soccer...
...meal of that kind, Bocuse charges between $18 and $25, excluding the cost of wine, or about two-thirds the price of a three-star Parisian restaurant. He also maintains a staff of 48 and habitually loses money on the operation. Bocuse stays prosperous by lending his name to a line of wines exported to the U.S. and by running an annex, the Abbaye, that he calls his "laughing place." There he can feed 300 at a banquet, and there he enjoys tinkering with a stereo system on which he plays schmalzy love songs and a $10,000 automated organ...
...crude and sometimes misleading measure. As conventionally calculated, it fails to adjust for such nonmonetary penalties of industrial growth as pollution and the nightmare of city congestion, or for such additions to material well-being as the pleasure a husband derives when his wife cooks a gourmet meal instead of popping a TV dinner into the oven. Now, a more sensitive gauge has appeared in a place that guarantees it wide attention: the ninth edition of Economics, the classic college textbook by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson...