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...business games are three fast-paced simulation programs that re-create the stock, real estate and commodities markets: Blue Chip Software's Millionaire, Baron and Tycoon. For $60 each, these startlingly realistic games let players dip their feet into the volatile market for stock options or pork-belly futures--without having to take a bath...
...interior and exterior, enveloped the men of Mamou on the morning of the great ride. Breakfast was beer and boudin (pronounced boo-dan, a muscular local sausage of rice, pork and pork liver that can quickly become an addiction). The mounted Cajun corps made it half a mile down the road before it had to find a field to relieve itself...
...course, the universities which are dipping into the "academic pork barrel" are not "stealing," and there is even a strong argument in favor of their action. For example, if a college needs a new physics lab, why should it compete with the needs of other universities? Why shouldn't it instead just have a local Congressman slip through a piece of legislation that "directs" a federal agency to grant the money? In this way universities can obtain millions without subjecting the proposal to the highly competitive peer review system...
...seasonal ingredients prepared with infinite care, no matter how humble a dish might be. Beard had wide and eclectic preferences in foods, ranging from caviar to Cheerios, from elegant Madeira sauces to marshmallows, from French quenelles de brochet to New England codfish cakes. He had a special liking for pork, sausages and sauerkraut, a combination he loved equally in the form of an Alsatian choucroute garnie or a hot dog topped with kraut at a streetcorner stand...
...heading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should Charles Percy, the current chairman, lose in Illinois, Hunt supporters are saying this latest action belies his protestations. The implication in all this is that Jim Hunt will concentrate on doing what he has done for the past eight years-bringing the pork barrel home to North Carolina...