Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that without new budget cuts, the deficit will reach about $65 billion next year, some $23 billion more than the White House has predicted. Said Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington: "The financial markets are telling us that the Administration deficit forecasts are pie...
...that's a pie-in-the-sky guesstimation, at best, because every squad--with the possible exception of Brown--has a legitimate shot at the crown in the very short (seven games) Ivy season. Princeton gets the early honors mostly on the strength of a possibly phenomenal recruiting year, with Tiger coach Bill Muse counting on the freshmen to shore up the offense and improve last year's 8-4-3 mark...
...another, more public afternoon in Mocksville, N.C., at a Masonic picnic, Helms is not asked to account for his future. His speech is scheduled between Ferris wheel rides and an all-you-can-eat feast of baked ham and lemon pie. Supporters mob him all day. He is happy...
...always do sooner or later, they want to do it with a strumpet certifiably and wickedly luxurious. Actually, according to a recent Consumer Reports calculation, a half-cup serving of superpremium vanilla ice cream contains only 267 calories, compared with 363 for a 5-oz. piece of homemade apple pie. A 154-lb. person, nutritionists say, can burn off half a dish in 21.2 min. of moderate skiing, 87.6 min. of golfing or painting furniture, or 188.6 min. of lying down and daydreaming. The difficulty, of course, lies with those of us for whom half a cup of ice cream...
...cream cone was the hit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis. Christian Nelson, an Iowa candy-store proprietor, thought up chocolate-covered ice cream in 1919 but got nowhere until Russell Stover, an ice-cream company superintendent, searched the firmament and invented the name Eskimo Pie. By 1922 the pair were selling a million pies a day. A Youngstown, Ohio, confectioner named Harry Burt refined the idea by developing chocolate-covered ice cream on a stick, and the Good Humor bar was hatched. In 1924 the Individual Drinking Cup Co. (what a dull name!) came...