Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volume that they did in the past. This year overall ad revenue for the networks is projected at $8.2 billion, down slightly from $8.3 billion in 1985. By contrast, in 1980, total annual network revenue amounted to $5.1 billion. Last year CBS garnered $2.89 billion of the advertising pie, or about 35%, while rival NBC took $2.73 billion, or 33%. This year the roles are expected to reverse, with NBC taking about 36% of the total...
Martin Marietta hopes for a big share of the estimated $1 billion annual launching market that the European Space Agency has virtually had to itself since January's shuttle tragedy. But others are eyeing the pie. Among them: General Dynamics, which has built Atlas-class rockets, and McDonnell Douglas, the maker of Delta boosters...
...Patrons entering the revamped and resplendent dining area were first informed by an illuminated menu what "Chef Stone will be serving" them: shrimp cocktail, prime ribs with bernaise sauce, asparagus on a bed of greens, tomatos stuffed with spinach, potatos a la something and, for dessert, white chocolate mousse pie...
...nobody's going to go back and eat their lima beans after the apple pie...
Dunkin' Donuts? You betcha. The dozen students were caught up in a course on American lingo, an offering sponsored by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Before their five weeks are up, those who enroll will study hundreds of words and phrases that are as easy as pie to the American on the street but off the wall to someone trained only in textbook English. Grass roots, for instance. And deejay. Far-out stuff like that...