Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the chains, though, claim they are feeling no pain. "We don't just redivide the pie, we enlarge it," argues Phil Zacheretti, a senior vice president at industry leader Regal Cinemas, a privately held behemoth with 4,000 screens. Yet even AMC, the aggressive, $900 million-a-year pioneer of megaplexes, based in Kansas City, Mo., is scaling down some of its 30-screen locations. "When does the big wave of capital expenditure end and we get to see some return on the investment?" asks Stewart Halpern, a senior analyst at ING Barings, who remains cautiously bullish. "That...
...starring role in Dogma, a film by Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy); a lead opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty, a film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men); and a star turn in I Was Made to Love Her for the Weitz brothers (American Pie...
...Davidians ignited the fires that consumed Mount Carmel. They believe the forensic evidence is overwhelming and is corroborated by transcripts of bugged conversations among the Davidians. But last week's admissions made it seem as if Reno, Justice and the FBI, in bureau parlance, couldn't find a pie in a bakery. FBI director Freeh, who took office 3 1/2 months after Waco, is declining to talk to the press until the Waco incident is reinvestigated. He apparently wants to make certain that nothing he says now will be contradicted by nasty little truths that may still be out there...
...senior class, which last year went for the apple-pie-and parenthood choice of Children Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, this year picked a woman who has lately rarely escaped the spotlight of controversy...
This summer scooters have become a hot accessory, popping up in movies (American Pie, the new Austin Powers), fashion spreads, music videos and ads (Doc Martens, IBM). Especially popular on both coasts, Vespas are a favored toy of such celebrities as Ellen DeGeneres (girlfriend Anne Heche gave her one) and Jerry Seinfeld (who paid some $10,000 for his rare 1962 Grand Sport). So popular have they become that Piagio plans to return to the U.S. market with environmentally compliant Vespas in 2000. "This is the year for scooters," says Erik Larson of the Scooter Shop in Orange, Calif...