Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooked in-house. The newly spruced-up Rice Epicurean Market in Houston offers roasted Cornish hens and beef Wellington, and it will steam lobsters to order as a customer goes about other shopping. The menu at the seven Treasure Island supermarkets in the Chicago area ranges from Greek spinach pie to fried chicken and ribs, turkey with gravy and mashed potatoes, and beef brisket. The Giant Food chain has responded to the growing market by setting up Gourmet to Go sections in 30 of its 144 stores in Maryland, Virginia and Washington...
...this tidy pie chart may soon be upset by the surprise entry of a new player that for the past two decades has been most conspicuous by its absence from the supercomputer market: IBM. In December the largest computer manufacturer (1987 sales: $54.2 billion) announced that it had struck a deal with Steve Chen, one of the foremost supercomputer designers, who jolted the computer world last September by suddenly leaving his post as a vice president at Cray. With financial aid from IBM, Chen has set up his own company to develop a machine 100 times as fast...
...buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat tender for sauteing. Yet they eat armored slugs that they call escargots! And they never heard of sloppy joes with fiber glass...
Thanks to well-organized programs like HAND and PBH, Harvard has traditionally provided the bulk of the volunteers in the Cambridge public schools, Brickman says. Now, students from Lesley College and MIT comprise an increasingly large piece of the volunteer pie because of Brickman's stepped-up recruiting campaign on those campuses. Unlike Harvard, Lesley, a teachers' college, grants its students academic credit for volunteer work in local schools...
...weeks ago, RPI made a cream puff pie and laid it right in the Crimson's face...