Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...first four days, the price of self- serve, unleaded gas rose 7.1 cents per gal., according to an American Automobile Association (AAA) check of 1,400 stations. By last Friday prices were up an average of 18 cents per gal. Said a wholesaler: "Since this Kuwait thing, the price has been going up two, three, four times a day." No wonder Judy Bauer, a Chicago gas-station owner, lost track. Asked what she was charging, Bauer told a caller, "Let me go out in front and look. It keeps jumping so much I can't even keep up with...
...meat cuts typically available both in the U.S. and France. I have often wondered just how to butterfly a leg of lamb when, at the last moment, I have had to settle for the whole leg. Eight quick steps, each with its own picture, show how to debone the thing, and then it's an easy, two-step process to lay open the fillet so that it's ready for the grill. For the more adventurous, the book teaches the construction of a crown roast of lamb, which is fashioned from two racks of lamb, bent round and tied...
...nothing to waver about here." What Saddam offers the President, says another White House aide, is "a case where he knows what's right, he knows what the American people think, and he knows what he should do. Most important, he knows these are all one and the same thing...
...bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this...
...whole thing boils down to government versus property rights." (Government...