Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There's another twist, I tell her. I live inside the congestion charging zone, so will be expected to pay $50 every time I take the car out of the garage on a weekday. That's almost the cost of a minicab journey to Heathrow. Or a pizza dinner. I'll have to swap the Mercedes for a new car and my carbon footprint will get bigger. "If you hardly drive it, that's a really good point," she says. "There are people like you, but hopefully not too many. People with very old, well-looked-after Mercedes are probably...
...more apropos comparison, is just shy of 14%.) But the U.S. is a different place. In Barcelona, a walking city par excellence, markets with fresh produce abound; tiny, flavor-loaded tapas replace our leaden meat-filled entrees; and fast food, despite the occasional McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, struggles to gain a foothold. But it wasn’t principally the lack of nutritional fact bombardment that made the seafood paella so memorable, or the sea salt and saffron so vibrant. It was the convivial atmosphere in Barcelona, the celebration of great food...
...Gambinos reigned supreme in the 1970s and 1980s. Arriving in the early '80s, the exiled Inzerillos were content to lie low under the protection of their powerful relatives. But the Gambino era would not last for long. In the mid-80s, 22 Sicily-born defendants were tried in the Pizza Connection case on charges of using New York pizzerias as fronts for importing heroin and laundering profits. The Gambinos suffered hit after hit and never recovered...
After returning to campus, the Harvard Democrats and Republicans assembled in the Winthrop Junior Common Room to watch the results over pizza and soda...
...emotional roller coaster that was Super Bowl XLII, and by the fourth quarter even those originally indifferent could not help joining in and screaming at the television screen. At the beginning of the game, fans on opposing sides traded some light verbal insults while enjoying a slice of pizza and a cold beverage. But as it became apparent that what was supposed to be the logical finish to an historic season by the now-18-1 Patriots had morphed into an exhilarating back-and-forth battle, we focused on the TV set and friendly banter was replaced by monosyllabic exclamations...