Word: bacon
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...veteran member of the Appropriations and Agriculture committees, Traxler has a reputation for bringing home the bacon. A case in point: this appropriation, which will fund research on methods of cutting losses in the handling and shipping of apples, thus benefiting consumers to whom such losses are passed along. Though no apples are grown in Traxler's district, Michigan's apple crop ranks third among the states and earns about $75 million annually. Says Traxler: "I'm proud of the program...
Pork-Barrel Lifetime Achievement Scroll: ROBERT BYRD This senior Democrat really knows how to deliver the bacon. Chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, he lately had two federal agencies moved to his home state of West Virginia...
...casual food, such as grilled marinated duck with warm cabbage salad. In Cambridge, Mass., Michela Larson added a glass- enclosed cafe atrium to her restaurant, Michela's, which serves a restrained version of her Northern Italian dishes. Cod, braised and served with a sauce of leeks, sherry and smoked bacon, replaced grilled swordfish. In the main dining room, it's all wild mushrooms and truffle oil; in the cafe, the fungi are tame and the oil is olive...
Senior Tutor Bacon says Heimert's work as a professor and his interest in traditional intellectualism prove that his stands on house life are more than just "political battles...
...morally fierce about intellectual excellence," Bacon says...