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Moderates these days. They're everywhere you look. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when moderation became the fashion, but it seems to have coincided with the introduction of khaki clothing by Banana Republic in the early '90s. It was an ominous sign of the sort of mediocrity we had to look forward to. Maybe people were sick of the whole '80s punk scene. Those shocking colors, large earrings and screaming music (not to mention that hair) were, admittedly, grating on the eyes. There were only so many days in a row you could wear your favorite lime green Converse...
Barely a month after the World Trade Organization?s settlement of the banana war between the U.S. and Europe, the food fight between the two continental trade giants continues. On Monday, beef was once again served up on the table of disputes as a May 13 deadline approaches for the European Union to lift its ban on hormone-treated beef from the U.S. The latest bone of contention: a report from European Union scientific experts stating that one of six typically used hormones used "has an inherent risk of causing cancer." The response from the U.S. side: baloney. "This...
Next he needed to convince other kids. He wrote entertaining spots for Littlewood's closed-circuit TV program (his slogan: "We love the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse!"), but at first many students resisted--and threw banana peels and other unsuitable garbage into his recycling bins. "One kid even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...
...good time, records show the Shooting Club threw elaborate banquets. A menu from a banquet given for members of the club in 1887 showed that the expert shooters dined on patties of lobster, gloucester, croquettes of chicken auxpetits pois, spaghetti parmesan au gratin and banana fritters glace benedictine...
...cited several examples of increasing pressure on politicians to raise campaign money, from his own campaigns for senator to the soft money contributions of the telecommunications, electrical and food industry in the recent "banana war" with Europe...