Word: bean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Loan for investment in Gloria Jean's coffee-bean franchise...
...find yourself in a money pit, try not to brag about it. It's one thing to wave off the corporate bean counters' attempts at cost control, as a studio source says Columbia president Mark Canton did last winter on Last Action Hero, but Canton and his boss, Sony Pictures chairman Peter Guber, were publicly cavalier about the mega-yen budget. A modestly priced Last Action Hero, Guber said at a conference in March, "would wind up being Last starring Arnold Schwarz." At the time, the line seemed funny...
Your best bet is to keep to the seafood dishes-squid and black bean sauce, for instance. The cakes at Chinese bakeries are always delicious, as well...
...been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher; and his Cabinet contains more millionaires per capita than either Reagan's or Bush...
Instead, we seized upon a third roommate's copy of King Lear and, bundled head to toe in earmuffs, parkas and Bean boots, stomped into the middle of our courtyard...