Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scanner, a part-time Washington lobbyist against federal deficits and a professional ballerina turned budget analyst. Diversity is the rule. Eric Gaidos plots schemes for the exploration of Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Martha McSally, a biology major and triathlete, helps oversee basic training at the U.S. Air Force Academy. And there is William Anton, who, when not earning straight A's at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is in the ring training for a shot at the U.S. Olympic boxing team...
Dumping is a topic that only an international trade lawyer could love. The basic concept is simple enough: dumping is selling a product for less than the cost of making it. That has been a world-trade problem ever since mass production made it easy for companies, inadvertently or otherwise, to turn out more goods than customers want. When stuck with anything from too many dolls to excess semiconductors, manufacturers often sell the products in other countries at very cheap prices rather than throw them away...
...indifference be allowed to creep -- into none less than cookery." Instructors are trying to instill Yuan's philosophy in students at vocational schools and more advanced professional cooking schools in China. Novices first learn the intricacies of chopping and slicing, practicing on potatoes or turnips, before they graduate to basic cooking techniques and finally master the classic floral garnishes formed of fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs. As a new generation takes over in the kitchen, the general quality and authenticity of the food promises to improve. But for now, some of the best and most rarefied eating...
Small wonder, then, that the best quality of such basic staples as tea, rice and oil is not used in ordinary restaurants. An overabundance of oil is a complaint most Westerners make about the food. But to the Chinese, oil is a sign of opulence, and so it is often poured generously. Yet quantity seems less a problem than quality. In the cheapest restaurants oil generally had a harsh, acrid flavor, a result of either poor processing or having been reused. The practice is not uncommon in American Chinese restaurants. Those who are sensitive to MSG (monosodium glutamate) have...
...desktop Model 30 to $13,300 for the fully equipped Model 80. All are packed with advanced, IBM-designed technology, from the custom- made chips that replace plug-in cards to an optional laser disk that can hold 800,000 pages of text. But the basic components -- the microprocessors, floppy disks and operating system -- are made of readily available, off-the- shelf parts, which should make it relatively easy for other firms to legally reproduce the new machines...