Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chefs, wine stewards and waiters. Maxim's shopping list included 25,000 bottles of wine-including a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, 1945, at $100 a bottle-that were sent to Iran a month early to rest. There were also 7,700 Ibs. of meat, 8,000 Ibs. of butter and cheese, and 1,000 pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack...
...rate of real growth will jump to 6¼%; meanwhile, the inflation rate will shrink from this year's 4.7% to 3%. If those results are achieved, the U.S. economy will expand faster next year than at any time since the mid-'60s. One bread-and-butter result, predict Heller, Grove and Eckstein, will be a reduction in the unemployment rate from the current...
...Butter Money. A general currency realignment would be only the indispensable first step toward long-term monetary reform. Economists everywhere are offering plans for more fundamental change-some of them rather fanciful. Japan's Nobutane Kiuchi would risk reviving memories of the Axis by having Japan and Germany agree to a new fixed rate for converting yen into marks, and inviting other countries to tie their currency values to this rate. Britain's Nicholas Kaldor suggests a new international money convertible not into dollars or gold but into a series of commodities, including wheat, butter, sugar and rubber...
...room and his words felt chilly. After a while he went to fetch some tea....And stooping, he returned carrying a small tray with two cups and a tiny plate of very thin, very dry Saiva biscuits. And I inwardly: I wish I could give him some bread and butter....I had met a great man, and Loneliness...
...published estimates range from 250 to 303 miles. Twenty roads cross the frontier at authorized transit points, marked by British and Irish customs posts. An additional 160 "unapproved" roads also cross the border; passage along them is forbidden, but they are widely used for transporting everything from guns to butter, from whisky to gelignite. On the other hand, British troops have, by their own admission, strayed accidentally across the border 30 times in the past two years...