Word: bean
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Though Japanese restaurants have popped up like bean sprouts throughout the U.S., all but the most intrepid American cooks refrain from emulating their cuisine. A pity. For, as Master Chef and Teacher Shizuo Tsuji demonstrates hi Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (Kodansha; $14.95), Japanese food at its best is intrinsically austere, as much a matter of balance-texture, flavors, colors and freshness-as anything else. Not unlike Escoffier and the gurus of nouvelle cuisine, the Japanese chef insists: "Let little seem like much, as long as it is fresh and beautiful." Tsuji, a former journalist with a degree in French...
...simply as possible, the standings look this: Yale has a 4-1 record, and five teams (Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton) are locked in second with 3-2 marks. If the Crimson can bean Penn on the road and give 1979 fans a pleasant sense of deja vu against the Elis at Soldiers Field, it is guaranteed a share of the title...
...campaign, McGovern--who has always been forced to come from behind--appeared to have pulled even with Abdnor, his strategy having put the challenger on the defensive. So while the jes' folks Abdnor waged a last-minute dietary campaign--capping his race with a huge "bean feed" at the state university, and Jim Abdnor Pancake Day in Mitchell--the more senatorial McGovern aired a series of commercials and made private visits across the state, hoping he could pull off another miracle...
...financial boost comes not a moment too soon. The company's macho-looking line of four-wheel-drive Jeeps, which convey a sort of L.L. Bean sexiness to suburbanites, helped lift AMC's profits to a record $84 million last year. But sales of the fuel-thirsty vehicles have fallen 41% this year. During the first nine months of the current fiscal year, AMC lost $74.4 million...
...chief negotiator of the company's $1.5 billion Government-guaranteed loan. Says he: "Government officials make it sound so easy: just retrain everybody. When one industry gets hurt by this avalanche of Japanese cars, you switch them all to washing cars. This isn't the jelly-bean business. What if, God forbid, we go to war, and we're fighting the guy who's been supplying us with all the trucks and tanks? Do we rent them from...