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Word: taco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there again." Like everything else in town, his business is geared toward an older clientele. "Ninety-five percent of the people who eat here have dentures. We serve bread pudding, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, and don't make the food too spicy. We only serve the soft-shell taco. It's a whole different atmosphere here. If it's someone's birthday, the whole room sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Parked in The Middle of Nowhere | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...adventure shows, has been the straight man for various ZAZ projects. Actually, Zucker says, he is quite funny. Zucker's sister told a story she remembers hearing about Zucker and Nielsen standing in a packed elevator when Nielsen said something like, "I wish I hadn't had that last taco," and provide suitable sound accompaniment with a whoopie cushion he occasionally carried around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...sorry record in race relations was reaffirmed in September when a federal court in El Paso found that the bureau had systematically assigned Hispanic agents to low-level duties known as the "taco circuit." The court warned that it might impose reforms on the agency's promotions system. Now FBI supervisors may be making matters worse: lawyers for 20 of the 311 agents involved in the suit went to court last week to charge that a number of those involved in the case had been removed from their duties or harassed in other ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FBI: Trouble on the Taco Circuit | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...chain's California Dreamin' sweepstakes, the entry form said, were about 1 in 3.7 million. But for Navy Mechanic James Lee of San Diego, it was a cinch. In fact, a year after claiming the Mustang, Lee was lucky enough to win a $28,500 Chevy Corvette in a Taco Bell sweepstakes. Last week a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lee, Marketing Executives John Curtin III and Kevin Kissane and two of their relatives on mail-fraud charges of rigging the sweepstakes. Curtin and Kissane, who operate C&K Marketing of New Jersey (1987 sales: $9 million), allegedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTESTS: Too Lucky To Be True | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...Latin flavoring, more and more cooks are trying their hand at home. According to industry analysts, Mexican food sales in the U.S. have jumped from $200 million in the early '70s to more than $1 billion last year. Grocery stores and produce markets are beginning to stock everything from taco shells and frozen burritos to such produce as jicama, cassava, cherimoya, yucca and papaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Earth And Fire | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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