Word: dominoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mirror my unsettled feeling. On one hand, we can read warnings from academics, hard-line Cold Warriors and eternal pessimists about how the demise of polarity could take us back to a Bismarckian Europe. But much more common, at least until the dust settles, are the jubilations over the domino theory in reverse. Every-where we're reminded what an exciting time it is to be alive...
...19th-century re-creation of Pilgrim and Indian fare, and none of these groups normally claim membership in the world's great culinary traditions. But miraculously the meal remains a monument to pre-microwave American cooking. Not even McDonald's has had the audacity to create McTurkey, nor does Domino's deliver cranberry pizza. So too are the food faddists outflanked, as sun-dried tomatoes, imported chevre and oat-bran anything give way to overstuffed lassitude...
Marshal Goldman, associate director of theRussian Research Center, said that the events inEast Germany will create a "domino effect" ofinstability that will eventually reach the SovietUnion itself...
...sunlight to reach the ground. By digging with their tusks, the great beasts bring underground pools to the surface, creating water holes that sustain a host of thirsty creatures. Warns a May 1989 study by a consortium of conservationists: "The elephant's extermination will lead to biological impoverishment and domino-like extinctions over much of Africa...
Ever since 1960, when Tom Monaghan opened his first pizza outlet in Ypsilanti, Mich., the eccentric tycoon has been expanding his empire like a spinning wheel of pizza dough. But now that his Domino's chain has 5,100 stores and sales of $2.3 billion, Monaghan is suddenly ready to move on. In a letter to employees and franchise owners, the pizza king disclosed that he is looking for ways to sell Domino...