Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McDonald's, Bob's Big Boys or Howard Johnsons. Such national restaurant chains are made, not born. Dreamed up by corporate entrepreneurs, they are produced by high-priced, savvy market researchers, advertising gurus, graphic designers and architects -- as well as by food consultants who cook up portion-controlled, idiot-proof recipes to feed the projected image. Owing more to McLuhan than to Escoffier, their packages are the products. Success lies in creating extraordinary images for ordinary favorites: hamburgers, fried fish or chicken, pizza, pasta, tacos and salads...
...unhappiness in an evenhanded way. Said Bush: "Nothing is without pain when you come to solve a problem of this magnitude." His program will require taxpayers and S & Ls to share the burden of a rescue that will cost an estimated $126 billion during the next decade. The taxpayer portion would amount to about $60 billion, which would be contained in the federal budget over the next ten years. The Government would borrow $50 billion by issuing 30-year bonds to be repaid through revenues collected from S & Ls. Including the interest expense, half of which will be borne...
Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program, said "a very significant portion" of sophomores turned away last week were admitted to Slive's course yesterday...
...wasn't just women who cashed in on the resulting boom in female sports programs and participation. A sizable portion of the pie ended up in the hands of a growing group of male coaches and administrators...
Beginning this spring, a portion of the freshman class will be randomly assigned to eight undisclosed houses. Also, lottery numbers will be with-held from freshmen for the first time since...