Word: buttings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Justest Dessert. While the fashionable may have pigged out on dacquoise, white chocolate and tiramisu, what turned on many Americans was a popular perennial: ice cream. But spare the vanilla, counterman. From superrich, chocolaty DoveBars to satiny Italian gelato, the nation's taste buds went for premium quality and...
Most Popular Entertainment. For a time it seemed that dining out had supplanted baseball or moviegoing as the all-American pastime. Trendy, self- styled trattorias and bistros, with provocative menus and often with fanciful decorative themes devised by hip designers, became a form of impromptu theater for tuned-in young...
Sorriest Dealmaker. All's fair in love and takeover war, or so thought Texaco. In 1984 the Lone Star oil giant pined for Getty Oil, even though that company had already pledged its hand to another suitor, Pennzoil. Texaco managed to seduce Getty with a sweeter offer, but the jilted...
Winningest Products. Good things came in small sizes: Chicken McNuggets, Chrysler minivans, 3M's Post-it notes. Health was hot: Nike Air shoes, oat bran and Diet Coke. But old reliables stole the show: Waring blenders, fountain pens, Etch A Sketches, convertibles, suspenders and condoms.
Least Timely Utterance. RJR Nabisco chief Ross Johnson, who was proposing a $25 billion buyout of the company, stood to make $100 million on the deal but failed to show much sympathy for the employees who might be transferred or laid off. They had, he said, "very portable types of...