Word: spits
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...Laurentiis does eat her own food when she's taping her show; she doesn't spit it out after a take or force herself to vomit, as several fans have asked. But she's not often having stuffed shells and mopped-up sauce. The day we spent together, De Laurentiis had a little bit of oatmeal with maple syrup for breakfast and a Caesar salad with chicken for lunch, followed by several small sweets from a cake shop. At dinner, she ordered three more salads--although, to be fair, one was served with a tuna fillet and another was shared...
...Harvard, he says, “I was a bit disillusioned with my Gov classes, because, although I did very well in my international affairs classes, I felt that came from an ability to spit out good test answers rather than from really understanding the texture of foreign societies...
...those with allergies, spring brings a runny nose, itchy eyes, uncontrollable sneezing and an insatiable hatred for pollen. Fortunately, those who love to swap spit can kiss their allergies good-bye—literally...
Neither outfit is running up the score. Nike's bercool jock culture, led by its monklike chairman, Phil Knight, just spit out another CEO, William Perez, who lasted only 13 months. Net income rose 21%, to $1.4 billion, for the full year ending Feb. 28, but Nike's stock has slipped 5.3% in 2006. Adidas, which nearly imploded in the 1990s, is working through another restructuring. The company last year spun out its ill-fitting Salomon ski business and bought Reebok, the perennial No. 3 brand. Adidas profits rose 25%, to $537 million, over the past year...
...advisers were concerned that it would be a tough environment, an environment that would chew me up and spit me out,” says Assistant Professor of Psychology Wendy B. Mendes, who moved to Harvard in 2004 from the University of California, San Francisco...