Word: rug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McDonald's tries to turn its stores into homes away from home. One restaurant in Villa Park, Ill., caters 600 birthday parties a month in a special room for children whose parents do not want kids spilling ice cream on the dining-room rug. Most stores now have "activities representatives" who organize kiddie and senior citizen programs and manage nearby playgrounds; this approach has disarmed communities that initially objected to a McDonald's in the neighborhood. In general, says President Schmitt, "we used to think you needed 50,000 people to support a McDonald...
...Colgate-Palmolive Co. in New York: "Knowing I can charge an item, I say, 'Oh well, the bill will not be corning in for another month.' " At one auction, Ferencz dipped into her bank line of credit to make the winning bid of $500 for a Persian rug. "I wasn't planning on buying a rug, but this one came up at a fantastic price." A walletful of credit cards also makes many a consumer feel like a big shot who can spend freely at posh restaurants. Says Roger Martin, public relations manager of Windows...
...sense, this is a dual biography. Tony Hiss is as frank about his own life as he is his father's. He displays what seems to be a characteristic sense of humor; informing us, for example, that the infamous rug Whittaker Chambers alleges he gave Alger Hiss as payment from the Russians is now his prize possession. There are his own bad times too--he had to learn how to adjust to an overconcerned mother and a father in prison as well as the normal challenges of adolescence. Like his father, though, Tony Hiss says he is now a happy...
...cook. There was also bowling in the basement alley, a snowball fight with her mother and brothers outside the Oval Office and a fast new friend: Grits, a mongrel puppy that was given to her by her new teacher Verona Meeder. After spending his first night on the pink rug in Amy's second-floor bedroom along with her cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Grits was moved to the kennel. Said one White House aide: "She really loves that...
...dead woman, blood running from her mouth, tumbling out of a garbage can. Men's shoes ("We'd Kill For These") were placed on her head and neck. Last fall, a Bon wit Teller window in Boston featured a woman dragging a female body wrapped in a rug...