Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOOD FASHION COLOR Beet red is the shade showing up in a few trend-setting new American boutique restaurants. It is valued primarily by chefs for its color, even though the beet's earthy flavor is anathema to many customers. In some places beets can't be given away, according to one chef in Dallas. However, they are glossing (and hopelessly muffling) ingredients such as lobster and ice cream at Rakel, and are adding heft to rabbit salad and halibut at Bouley, both in New York City...
Maverick, loner, outcast, a "voice in the woods": all these words describe a courageous, gallant senator who stuck to his principles when they were anathema to his party and to much of the nation. Weicker's forced departure proves that the Republican party, even in its triumph, is unwilling to accept opposing views, and this only limits further the number of Americans they can claim to represent...
...four decades, the most important foreign policy challenge facing any President has been managing relations with the other superpower. The Soviet Union is the only state that can threaten America's existence; it is the principal U.S. rival for influence around the world; and its totalitarian political system is anathema to American values...
DUKAKIS and his staffers find themselves in a different type of quandary. First, there is the inevitable Cokecocaine link. And then there is the crucial, perhaps politically lethal question of the "new" Coke debacle. New Coke was anathema to the nation's traditionalist men and women. Dukakis no longer has to shrug off the "I" label but now the "n" world as well. He will need to take a stand. Classic Coke. With sugar. With caffeine. For real Americans...
...anyone expected. As houses in the inner rings of suburbs became more expensive because of their proximity to jobs, developers began building outer rings of more affordable houses. For suburbs that have been intensively built up, it is too late for additional major highways. "Once development occurs, it is anathema to government to pave over someone's house," says Denton Kent, Fairfax's deputy county executive for planning and development...