Word: pie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small-town atmosphere, creates a scenario of rural life and attitudes which is all-pervasive in Washington county. It's a region in which the undertaker in the town of Cherryfield also runs the ambulance service and where Helen's, a small restaurant in Machias famous for its pies, can become a county center. "You'll meet more people from Washington county here at Helen's than you will in the whole damn town," said one middle-aged man in baggy brown trousers and frayed shirt, scooping up his blueberry cream pie...
...Money Pie. One could throw up one's hands at all this were not so many lives and careers being disrupted. To the layman, the performing arts constitute an often incomprehensible world, but never so much as when management and labor gather to divvy up the shrinking money pie. As much as anything else, the problem stems from a scale of values and priorities that the cultural community has allowed to go haywire...
Unlike former dean John T. Dunlop, who had his finger in every faculty pie and who controlled the Faculty almost singlehandedly, Rosovsky says he wants the other deans to be responsible in their own areas...
Dartmouth--This is the year for humble pie in Hanover. Graduation virtually obliterated the Big Green's chances to extend Ivy dominance. Jake Crouthamel may hope he gets some good offers to coach elsewhere because it will be a long fall for Dartmouth. The Big Green will finish around .500 and should be grateful for that much. Fourth...
Perhaps, but few of the Hyatt's conventional clientele of tourists and Japanese businessmen seem to mind. "A few months ago, when Humble Pie was here, two gray-haired ladies from Omaha were staying in the hotel," recalls Night Desk Clerk Jim Ralston. "They took naps in the afternoon so they could sit up at night and watch the circus. They just sat, chattered and poked each other in the ribs in amazement." Between the circus and the onlookers, the Hyatt is enjoying an 82% occupancy rate, 17% higher than the national hotel average. (Rates: from $21.50 per room...