Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel...
...reacting intelligently. The U.S. shift in the Middle East came only after Yasser Arafat finally accepted Israel's right to exist. "Once you're confronted with something someone else has put forward," says Baker, "the measure should be how you turn it to your advantage...
...Baker who regularly needed to keep Bush on board with the fall campaign's attack strategy. By all accounts, the key to his success with Bush was a smooth manner. At every turn, Baker played the high-priced corporate lawyer who subtly guides his client to "choose" the option the lawyer intended from the start. "Everything was couched in the most mild way so as to let Bush make the final decisions," says one of the campaign's senior advisers. "It was always 'Hey, Bushie, the gang here thinks you ought to do thus and such -- but only...
...toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl decorated with pink roses and exuding the flower's fragrance, and the Fin de Siecle in Vienna, which offers a rococo bowl and whiffs of lavender. The builders, the Golden Tower Corp., hope to turn a profit on the $4 million project in about four years. So far, up to 2,000 visitors a day have flooded...
...values to replace the values of Christianity. God was dead, but guilt was not, and there was no way to absolve it. That, perhaps, is exactly the period we are in. No use saying we are going to return to the dissenting Protestant view of sexual morality at the turn of the century...