Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hint: No, it's not a slice of pizza...
Wall Streeters were not surprised by AT&T's ax swinging. Times have not been good for the restructured firm. The company's once captive markets have become competitive, and its share of business has been dwindling. Its slice of new consumer telephone sales, once 80%, is now down to 50%, and the company has closed its telephone-making plant in Indianapolis. Revenues from telephone rentals are shrinking fast too, as more and more phone users buy their own phones. Such competitors as GTE and Northern Telecom have stolen about half of the $12.5 billion a year in business that...
...eleven full hides from Scandinavian steers "kept virtually free from pests and barbed wire," according to the company, for the hand-sewn upholstery. Or the Lombard walnut selected in Milan each year by Rolls experts to assure that each dashboard's unique pattern can be repaired from the same slice of the same tree. Or the famed flying-lady hood ornament, officially "the Spirit of Ecstasy," made by a 4,000-year-old Chinese casting method that produces a faithful replica; hand sanding then leaves each one slightly different...
Pinnochio's (74 Winthrop St.): This place seems to change owners as often as the seasons, but the current proprietors have made a good stab at it. Their slices are a bit expensive, but pies are reasonable and not bad tasting Cafe Avventura (The Garage): The best deal in the Square for the best thin-crust pizza around. A slice for only 65 cents, and you can get a 10 percent discount with your student i.d. Pizzeria Regina (4-10 Holyoke St.): Ever since Avventura's came around, this place has become less popular, which is unfortunate since...
...Pepsi-Cola USA, said his surveys show that 60% of new Coke drinkers see it as "weaker in flavor delivery." But hold on, countercountered Coke. Pepsi's sales figures are distorted because they include Pepsi's entire array of soft drinks, notably Diet Pepsi and the new lemon-flavored Slice. Reliable figures will not be available until July or August...