Word: beans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jelly-bean psychologist of the Reagan Administration, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, allows that his study of how his colleagues dip into the President's jelly-bean jar during Cabinet meetings goes on as before, "but it is not quite as much fun without Al Haig...
Manufacturers estimate the U.S. bike- clothing market at $30 million and say it is growing by 25% annually. The suppliers include more than 50 companies, from Japan's Descente and France's Le Coq Sportif to America's Protogs, Cannondale and L.L. Bean. Some 60% of the 6,500 bicycle shops in the U.S. now carry clothing next to the tubes and pumps, as compared with only about one-third ten years...
...appearance of Japanese foods along with those of the Middle East, Latin America and the rest of Asia coincided with the new American obsession with health. This fare seemed to meet the demand for proteins other than meat (bean curd or tofu, fish, beans), less animal fat and more complex carbohydrates (rice or noodles). Indeed, many of these ingredients first appeared in this country on the menus of health-food restaurants...
Lonesome Dove, Texas, is a one-tart town and so quiet you can hear the lady's bedsprings a block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...
...kindling, let's pile high all the Bean catalogue on campus. Self-proclaimed ex-preppies can speak on how they broke the habit, and we can burn an effigy of Lisa Birnbach...