Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ruggles Pizza, occupying prime real estate next to Store 24, specializes in British cheddar cheese pizza. Despite liberal offerings of two-for-one deals, monthly all-you-can-eat specials, and a new salad bar as incentives, Ruggles fails to draw droves of undergraduates. "The only guy I've ever seen eating there is the dummy in the window," observes Peter Wagner...
Apparently, however, the Anglicized pizza form has not yet caught on among Harvard students, who are lured instead to Uno's and Regina's. The typical response is that of Carl D. Shannon '87, who grimaces, "Cheddar cheese pizza...
However, managers of some sit-down restaurants, including Ruggles Pizza, Souper Salad, and the Mug'n'Muffin, said business was about average...
...twin trials have brought a mob of 32 defendants to the federal courthouse on Foley Square. In the celebrated "pizza connection" trial, the Government contends that the Bonanno crime family conspired with Sicilian Mafia counterparts to bring $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. from 1977 to 1984. The case owes its spicy nickname to the pizza parlors allegedly used as fronts for heroin smuggling...
This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...