Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pizza business is heating up over charges and countercharges by the industry's two top competitors, Jeno's Inc. of Duluth, Minn., and Totino's pizza, a division of Pillsbury Co. of Minneapolis. The industry leader since the early 1970s, Jeno's has watched its slice of the market shrink to 20% since Pillsbury acquired Totino's in 1975. Fighting back, Jeno's sued Pillsbury last October for a mouthful of pizza sins, including "pizza crust patent infringement." In its suit, Jeno's maintained that Totino's had stolen the secret Jeno...
...Wall Street Journal is a worthwhile investment for anyone who thinks that the state of the American economy is something to laugh at. Among the funnier send-ups: a deadpan report on a failed takeover bid by the Mobil Corp., this time for Bill's Hoagie Stop; a slice-of-life jape about the current fascination with economic jargon, depicting a scatological barroom brawl over monopsony, diminishing rates of transformation, and the Laffer Curve...
...bring out the shaker again." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the story and therefore "sits above the salt," is noted as a trencherman of more than fair enthusiasm. Since he worked on the cover story, his gastronomic ardor has cooled. Says he: "Now I suspect every innocent slice of Brie that comes...
...Faculty Council member. Keenan predicted the Latin American program would not gain approval saying. "In academic politics, fine proposals die the death of a thousand strokes--a little slice here, a slice there...
...Syria?but also some symbolic piece of territory, even if only a sliver of what Israel had taken in the 1967 war. Every Arab leader had told me that Syria could not merely settle on restoration of the 1973 line; to keep pace with Egypt, which had recovered a slice of the Sinai, some Syrian gain of lands taken by Israel in 1967 was imperative. This was particularly true of Quneitra, provincial