Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drumsticks at 20 paces and no chickening out as Dinah Shore and Frank Perdue square off in what history may record as the Great American Chicken War. Looking to outstrut each other as they winged into New York City last week, both hawked new supermarket products -- cooked chicken, prepared in a variety of cuts and seasonings and all dubbed fresh despite an avowed ten-to- 17-day shelf life. Ducking questions about whether a week-old roast chicken could be considered truly fresh, Perdue and Shore made it plain that in this case the term means not frozen and, presumably...
...McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. "They have siphoned off about 20% of supermarket poultry sales in the past five years," estimates Kent Hill, a marketing executive for Holly Farms. That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. Some 400 hungry guests joined Shore to gorge on 300 lbs. of chicken in plain, Cajun or smoky...
Eddie Vrdolyak, former boss of Chicago, announced he was leaving the Democratic party of his immigrant parents, who found a home in one of the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, in order to join the Republican party of Lake Shore Drive. Apparently the Democrats no longer represented the interests that had drawn Vrdolyak's family to the party...
...start at $500,000 and run well over $1 million are sprouting in unprecedented numbers. Reason: the unusually long five-year-old economic expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore: "A shocking number of people have suddenly become wealthy, and they want to show the world. Their luxury home is the ultimate present to themselves...
...Long Beach Island, N.J., a mile-long strip of supposedly "red-bagged" hospital waste, including used hypodermic needles, washes up on shore, closing down a national park for four days...