• Their actions were indicative of the fear that the game of chicken is getting out of hand.

    CNN: On Greek economy, who will blink first?

  • The court heard it was made out of chicken wire, and as the cat entered a peg was dislodged, sealing the cage with a plastic flap.

    BBC: Pensioner Gordon Wilson trapped neighbour's cats in cage

  • Marcia Carman, who ran the branch until she retired a few months before it closed, notes that a number of businesses, including a chicken production plant, had moved out of town.

    WSJ: After Years of Growth, Banks Are Pruning Their Branches

  • We have a lot of briskets going out, a lot of barbecued chicken, some jalapeno cornbreads and some things like that, said Bennett Fass, the chief Aramark chef at the convention.

    CNN: The politics of food: A convention digest

  • But with a service area of 635 square miles, and 8, 500 citizens to serve -- in a state that the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently recently ranked worst in delivering health care services -- Ballinger officials, like many rural health care providers, say they want Congress to keep them out of a high-stakes games of political chicken.

    CNN: Voters sick of health care debate

  • Supersizing a meal at McDonald's, Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken costs a consumer only 67 cents out of pocket.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Readers may recall our piece early last year on the role of English chicken farmer Antony Fisher in instigating and inspiring this work, carried out today by a welter of organizations at the international, regional and national levels.

    FORBES: Scribblers and Society

  • You will find yourself in the midst of a sensory assault as you soak up the aroma of roast chicken and bratwurst, pick out a colourful gingerbread heart to take home to your loved ones and avert your gaze from the pimply-faced teen who has had one beer too many.

    BBC: Oktoberfest turns 200

  • For children, roughly 9 out of 10 children vaccinated with a single dose of the chicken pox vaccine will develop immunity against chicken pox.

    FORBES: Why Chicken Pox Can Be So Dangerous

  • So eventually, if they were to succeed, once somebody is out of the picture, the next one will be the chicken farm down the road.

    CNN: Foie gras causes uproar

  • The survey also found nine out of 10 people would complain if they were served undercooked chicken in a restaurant or by their partner, but only three quarters would speak up if their mother-in-law was cooking, or at a business lunch.

    BBC: Britons 'do not complain' over hygiene

  • Imagine a sheet of carbon atoms laid out on a hexagonal grid, like chicken-wire.

    ECONOMIST: Space-age soot

  • He rolled out pizza toppings Monaghan probably never dreamed of: squid, teriyaki chicken, potato with mayonnaise and Camembert cheese with mille-feuille puff-pastry crust.

    FORBES: BY BRIAN MERTENS

  • The parrot had plucked out most of its feathers was was said to resemble an oven-ready chicken.

    BBC: Charlie the parrot wearing his jumper

  • Ostrich farmers point out that the flesh of their eccentric bird has half as much fat as chicken, lots of iron, and very little cholesterol - as well as being extremely tasty.

    BBC: Iran makes huge ostrich sandwich

  • Chicken Littles in those days argued that the earth was becoming overpopulated, that we were running out of food, oil and other natural resources, that we were becoming more polluted.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Two stories out of the eurozone today neither of which reflect well on the politicians performing the headless chicken dance as economies crumble.

    FORBES: Eurozone: S&P Downgrades Everyone and the Appalling, Horrible, Error

  • The company went out of its way to cite the "strong" performance of its white-meat chicken items, along with better-than-expected overseas results, in announcing a 5% same-store sales jump in December from a year ago.

    FORBES: It's The Burgers, Stupid

  • But Suzanne was already down to a diet of chicken, beef, sweet potatoes, and rice -- there was nothing more she could cut out.

    CNN: Desperate breast-feeding moms reveal secrets

  • And then you are coming back from Chicken Holiday with a four-piece meal, a drumstick in your mouth, and there she is, walking out of Pathmark, wrestling a pair of plastic bags.

    NEWYORKER: Miss Lora

  • One of the most successful direct-to-consumer books actually came out years ago: "Chicken Soup for the Soul" sold over 2 million copies from its self-published origins in 1993 while the tools for all this were still in their infancy.

    WSJ: On the Web, Amateurs Rivaling Professionals

  • Late Sunday night, the game of chicken had shifted to whether a short-term extension of the debt ceiling -- which Obama had previously ruled out in an attempt to get the parties to focus on a long-term plan -- would be passed.

    CNN: Our stupid self-inflicted debt crisis

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