Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon reports that the $30 billion the U.S. has already invested in Star Wars has generated a new type of plastic that will keep home- delivered pizzas "hot and crisp for two hours." Americans will eat roughly 8 billion pizzas this year.* That works out to $3.75 a pie...
...four hours of programming on Mondays and Tuesdays. Both UPN and WB hope to expand to seven nights in the next several years, just as the Fox network has done after a similar start-up in 1986, and thus to bite off another chunk of the increasingly fragmented audience pie...
...grew up, for example, in a culture that recognized only four major foodstuffs: potatoes (mashed or fried), beef (roast or stewed), desserts (cake or pie) and vegetables (canned). There were "salads" too, involving miniature marshmallows encased in lime Jell-O. And there were, at the far fringes of human gastronomic experience, "foreign" foods, meaning mainly spaghetti. In those days, the only way to have fun with food was to put the peas to work as projectiles or make moats out of mashed potatoes...
Hence the glorious relief of those recent holiday meals. The food is unreformed, archaic, predictable -- mashed potatoes and gravy, overcooked veggies, huge slabs of pie. It's democratic, if not downright egalitarian -- meaning pretty much the same collection of foodstuffs whether you dine in a mansion or a soup kitchen. We can give thanks, with a chorus of satisfied belches, that the food is for once meant just to be filling, and that the only entertainment we're likely to find at the table is the people who are seated around...
...These communities receive a disproportionate piece of the local aid pie as a result that their property values are depressed," Tisei continued. He said rent control laws in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline cost the state over $30 million a year in potential property tax revenue...