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Antipasto, move over! Hors d'oeuvres, make room! The new rage in appetizer assortments hails from Spain, and its name is tapas. Although at first glance the word looks a little like something spelled backward, tapas has a meaning all its own. In Spain, at the sherry-sipping hours before lunch and dinner, bars offer an array of small dishes, hot and cold, to whet appetites for dinner and develop a thirst for further drinking. The convivial custom is popular from Barcelona to Seville, but Penelope Casas, in her cookbook Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain (Knopf), speculates that...
...selling point will be a revolutionary engine, called an unducted turbofan, that may increase jet-fuel efficiency by 35% to 45%. The new engine is expected to look like a futuristic eggbeater, bristling with twin sets of curved rotor blades that are exposed like propellers but face backward. Boeing is currently studying competing engine designs from General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney...
...Soviet science will not be backward because it is under controlled systems," Oettinger said. He said the Soviet Union's increasing emphasis on technology development could foster democracy because "it will enlarge the sphere of those people who will be consulted in making decisions...
...service to the Reagans was factored into the deals. Deaver may never have understood his own special place in the world of power. Few men in history have had such personal and professional trust from a President. If he had it to do again, Deaver would bend over backward to break cleanly with the White House. "I would keep a lower profile," he said...
...rest of history," says one character, benefiting from the hindsight of fiction. Records of the actual event contain revealing statements that defy the imagination. Said a general to the scientist who had called the century's most resonant countdown: "What a wonderful thing that you could count backward at a time like this...