Word: bread
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Almost no one took the cause very seriously when Louisiana State Representative Raymond ("La La") Lalonde introduced his bill to allow Cajuns to qualify for minority-set-aside contracts awarded by the state. Amid the bread-and-circuses atmosphere of Louisiana politics, Lalonde's crusade to "enhance the status of the French Acadian people" was seen as a bit of harmless posturing for his constituents. But then the Cajun legislators flexed their political muscle, and the bill sailed through the state house by a vote of 74 to 22, despite the bitter opposition of black legislators. "This is not only...
...disengaged as people seemed to be from the crash's causes, they were equally disengaged from its consequences. This was not Black Monday all over again. It would not lead to bread lines, or people diving out of buildings. Capitalism would not come up for inspection. The ordinary person on the street was more likely to snicker than despair. Although thousands of small investors were hard hit, everyone identified losses with the young investment banker and his Gold Card...
...Saturday reunion cookout featured hamburgers, barbecued chicken and potato salad--but co-op residents also prepared homemade bread, home-brewed beer, grilled tofu, and curried tofu with apples and raisins. At least one of the co-op's four dogs had a name tag reading, "Hello, My Name Is Gwendolyn" stuck on her head...
...sipped their cafe con leche and bit hungrily into freshly baked Cuban bread spread thick with butter. Wax-lined baskets of bollitos, deep- fried balls of ground black-eyed peas, were passed around. "Eat, eat. No ^ diets allowed here," they coaxed one another in Spanish. Still, their well- spoken English is an accented blend of Southern drawl and Latin staccato...
...into the computerized navigation system of his 26-ft. sport- fishing boat, the Miami-based writer speeds directly toward a favorite haunt, a stretch of the Atlantic three miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. When the computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves across a rotating paper drum. At first Poveromo sees only the line that...