Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boosting quality and shutting down poorly performing stores. Under pressure from Papa John's, Pizza Hut spent $50 million last year to roll out what it called Totally New Pizzas, featuring thicker tomato sauce, fresh sliced vegetables and meatier toppings. Meanwhile, Pizza Hut has closed 250 stores since PepsiCo spun it and siblings Taco Bell and KFC into Tricon last year. The new strategy pushed Pizza Hut's same-store sales up a strong 9% in the second quarter, although the company said last week the pace slowed to 4% in the third quarter. "Pizza Hut has generated very strong...
Stauffer may have missed once, but she wouldnot be denied again. In the 68th minute, Stewartsent a corner kick to the far post where Stauffercontrolled it, spun and lofted a shot across thebox that traveled over the lunging Pagliarulo andhugged the top of the net for the equalizer...
Stauffer may have missed once, but she wouldnot be denied again. In the 68th minute, Stewartsent a corner kick to the far post where Stauffercontrolled it, spun and lofted a shot across thebox that traveled over the lunging Pagliarulo andhugged the top of the net for the equalizer...
After a huge game against Buffalo the previousweek, Hood could only manage 64 passing yards. Hedid, however, prove adept at eluding the Crimsonrush. He spun out of a few Crimson tackles andfinished the game with 48 yards on the ground,nearly matching his passing numbers...
...which portrays a Jewish man from Newark, N.J., who achieves worldly success and happiness, only to have his life ruined by a deranged stepdaughter. Anyone who thinks these two plots are too similar to justify separate novels probably has not been paying attention to Roth's career. He has spun whole cycles of fiction around the same, or very similar, characters trying to cope with the unvarying problems of their lives. Repetitive stress is Roth's grand comic theme; his genius shows up in the variations...