Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...globe, given the native alternatives, is beyond some, but the familiarity can be comforting to the homesick. The cheapest cone in the Square, and the smallest scoop, too. Try the mudpies--now available in individual slices for $1.50 each--made of Jamocha Almond Fudge ice cream in a pie crust. Haagen Dazs (67 JFK St.): Considered one of the best of the mass-marketed variety, Convenient for Gelaria shoppers, for some it's a slice of home. Chocolate-chocolate chip is still tops: so rich, they named it twice. Gelateria (Mt. Auburn St.): This new-wave addition to the list...
...competitors, the riches from even a tiny slice of A T & T's long-distance pie are substantial. A T & T's share of the market is 61%, with the new regional companies and non-Bell independents handling an additional 32%. MCI's revenues doubled annually between 1980 and 1983, going from $144 million to $1 billion. In that same period, profits mushroomed from $13 million to $171 million. Yet its share of the long-distance market is only 3.5%, 1.3 million residential customers and 300,000 business clients. Sprint has less than a 2% share...
...Brunetta Wolman points to a heirarchy of authority that flows from the General Court to the Board of Regents to a local board of Trustees and constituencies as the faculty, students, and deans revelling in what they suppose to be their dimming power. She likens college authority to a pie, suggesting that her own slice as president is excruciatingly miniscule...
Kingston Falls, U.S.A., the setting for Gremlins, is itself a dreamscape confected from congenial old slices of apple-pie Americana. Norman Rockwell might have painted the town's Main Street and the faces of the folks who stroll down it on this peaceful Christmas Eve. Frank Capra, Hollywood's master of sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges...
...wish to emphasize the distinctions among the minority groups. It must sometimes seem that minority factions are competing for the same piece of the pie. But that attitude is in its very essence a divisive one. A better perspective of progress continues a search for greater equality of opportunity without regard to race, sex, religion, and many other characteristics that contribute to our individuality...