Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clint Eastwood, the way to make your day is to sample his hearty apple pie. Eastwood, the actor turned mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., fired off the recipe to The Mayors' Cookbook (Acropolis Books; $14.95), a collection of more than 300 city leaders' favorite dishes. The contents are not only eclectic but reflect a politically prudent regional loyalty: Ed Koch of New York City advocates pasta primavera and Kathryn Whitmire of Houston sings the merits of huevos con chorizo (eggs with sausage). But gourmets may balk when it comes to the Lone Star broccoli casserole, the preferred dish...
...Government officials charged with holding down deficit spending, this all sounds like a familiar cry for a piece of the federal pie. Though Bowen argues that his plan will be self-financing, the Reagan budget cutters are concerned that Congress may start adding benefits to the basic formula. They also remember the original estimates that Government payments for kidney dialysis would cost only a couple of hundred million dollars; actual payments have grown to $2 billion...
...number of small individual investors who own stock has been steadily shrinking, and the Boesky scandal may well accelerate that trend. Says Bill Kasten, an account executive in the Chicago offices of the E.F. Hutton investment firm: "Smaller investors now think that they're just crumbs in the pie, that they have no control." Agrees Robert Nichols, president of Los Angeles-based RNC Capital Management: "If we don't restore the public's confidence, the public is going to exit and not come back...
Appleton, Wis., is a midsize city in the heart of Middle America, as homespun and unpretentious as bread pudding or apple pie. Like other such cities, it has collected some singular claims to fame. Appleton, residents like to note, is the home of Lawrence University. It nurtured Novelist Edna Ferber and Senator Joe McCarthy. It also boasts the first house in the nation to light up with hydroelectric power. But what an outsider finds chiefly remarkable about Appleton is the ordinariness that spreads over the place like the warm October sunshine...
...stranded in Cambridge over the holidays, you're not alone. Although all College dining halls except Adams House are closed on Thanksgiving Day, Food Services has planned a special holiday dinner--including turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes--for the 325 undergraduates expected to feast on Harvard's roast beast...