Word: redness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good news is that booming international trade is spreading wealth around the world. The bad news is that the U.S. was the world's largest creditor in 1980 but went into the red in 1985, and has become the world's largest debtor. Its trade deficit runs about $150 billion a year. Foreign holdings in the U.S. now amount to $1.5 trillion, compared with $1.2 trillion in U.S. assets abroad. And meanwhile, the grinding poverty of the Third World, by now $1 trillion in debt, has not improved in the least...
Most Overdone Craze. Paul Prudhomme of K-Paul's restaurant in New Orleans, the globular Cajun chef, was the man responsible for a dish that eventually became too much of a good thing: blackened redfish, in which a fillet is dusted with spices and then seared on a red-hot iron skillet. Suddenly, chefs who had never been within light-years of a bayou were giving us blackened tuna, blackened swordfish, blackened bluefish, blackened scallops, blackened . . . burp...
According to investigators, all four bombs appear to have been made with smokeless powder, easily purchased at any gun store, and packed with nails that spray like shrapnel when the devices explode. All were wrapped in brown paper and twine with neatly typed red-bordered labels. All carried plausible return addresses. Three were deposited in mailboxes in Georgia (the fourth had a smudged postmark) with more postage than necessary, apparently so that the sender could avoid a face-to-face transaction with a clerk at a post office counter. The package intended for Vance may have been sent...