Word: asparagus
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...Agnew: "Greek immigrant, son of a Greek immigrant, he takes two cases of asparagus off a Food Fare guy and a couple thousand dollars in bills...
...they steal, they steal cash. So here in the middle of this great thing with a president trying to steal the Constitution and set up a dictatorship, here in the end what does the one ethnic do? Greek immigrant, son of a Greek immigrant, he takes two cases of asparagus off a Food Fare guy and a couple thousand dollars in bills (which I am absolutely sure had to have big marks all over them, Gs and red letters and all that stuff). He went the way of the ethnics: he took cash...
...many parts of the country, agricultural acreage is taxed so heavily that farmers are being forced to sell out to developers. Thus much of the nation's bottom land is now sprouting condominiums rather than corn, and asphalt rather than asparagus. Massachusetts residents are presented with a solution: a proposal to tax agricultural and horticultural lands not on the fair market value (what it is worth to developers) but on the agricultural and horticultural value (what it is worth to the grower). The tax relief would apply to tracts larger than five acres that have been under cultivation...
...cupcakes full of vitamins, without mentioning that they still contain as much as 45% sugar. But Del Monte's new labels will be helpful to shoppers wishing to plan balanced meals. Those who consume mainly starchy vegetables like peas and beets, for example, can substitute more spinach and asparagus after a little common sense comparison of carbohydrate counts. Says Dr. Michael F. Jacobson, author of Eater's Digest: "It will require some maturity on the part of consumers to accept the fact that every food should not have to contain every vitamin and mineral." Del Monte Group Vice...
...structural clarity, that they loved individual phrases to the detriment of the overall design--the forest-trees syndrome. The late George Szell, when asked why his interpretations of the classical repertoire could not be warmer in tone, gave a gourmet's response: "I cannot pour chocolate sauce over asparagus." The metaphor, though exaggerated, describes to some degree what happened in the first half of Monday's concert--thick, sensuous topping (quite enjoyable in the proper context) amorphously coating the crisp organic forms of Haydn and Beethoven. I hasten, however, to make it perfectly clear that the group's well-intended...