Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...microchips mix with potato chips? Do electric typewriters go well with pasta? Will photocopiers blend with hamburgers? Far from being a recipe for corporate indigestion, this is just the kind of formula favored by Carlo De Benedetti, 50, chairman of Olivetti, Italy's giant maker of office automation and data-processing equipment...
Patrons of the long-absent Square hangout One Potato, Two Potato will once again be sipping their drinks and eating their burgers at the familiar Mass. Ave. spot come summertime...
They celebrated being the first seniors of the semester to turn in their 40-60-page theses with champagne, flowers and potato chips...
...report for ten months. When he finally forwarded it to Capitol Hill in October, he stopped short of endorsing its conclusions. He said in a covering letter that the report had been neither reviewed nor approved by the Government. "The GAC report was a hot potato," recalls a White House official. "We couldn't embrace the thing even if we believed it, because to do so would be the kiss of death for arms control, to which the President is really committed. How can we continue trying to negotiate with the Soviets if everything that the GAC report says...
...where they were receiving training from U.S. military personnel. They opened fire on civilians including children, pregnant women and students at an agricultural school about two miles outside of this town. In addition, the contras set fire to the machinery, supplies and crops of an adjacent, three-year old potato farm established and run by representatives from the Dutch government. At least $2.5 million worth of damage was caused by this attack--not to mention the many lives lost...