Word: plate
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Like all homes, it has its lost treasures. In 1792 there was a grand dinner and 16 toasts by Freemasons from Georgetown after they laid the White House cornerstone over a brass marker. The location of stone and plate was quickly forgotten. No one is certain where it is today, despite high technology and old-fashioned dowsing rods. Truman did not find it during his renovation. And no modern President wants to cut into the sacred walls. That cornerstone, wherever it is, will lie undisturbed, one hopes, for at least another two centuries...
...lady at the table in the center of the room is shouting like a high school cheerleader. It's April 1998, and George W. Bush is standing in front of a huge plate-glass window that frames much of Silicon Valley. Bush is out near Sand Hill Road, home to the venture capitalists, and he is talking with unusual passion about education, the New Economy and his record in Texas. The small banquet room is overflowing with VCs, dotcomers and gearheads who have paid $1,000 a plate to meet the man who might be the next President. Some arrived...
...Trinity is very strong in the top three, so one of our top guys is going to have to step up to the plate," Ghosh said...
...that candidates neglect their current offices and raise millions. Nevermind that Bush has a state to govern or that Gore is our current vice president--someone must be covering for them while they fly from state to state, delivering the same stump speeches and hosting one $10,000-a-plate dinner after another...
...Nutrition Nanny. Michael Jacobson, nemesis of the multibillion-dollar U.S. food industry, relishes the attention. In the three decades since the soft-spoken microbiologist co-founded the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels on all supermarket processed-food items...