Word: butter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman . . . that he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies . . . that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...Clemons is the Tribe's spark-plug, quarterback Ken Lambiotte is the squad's bread and butter. Lambiotte racked up some impressive numbers in his team's first two wins (47-for-73, 582 yards, seven t.d.s, three interceptions) before missing a game with a sprained ankle. He is expected to play against the Crimson...
Shepsle says that while he enjoys teaching, research is what he likes best. "It's the party-line--I've been taught to say it. You teach to put the bread and butter on the table, but your true love is your research," he says. "And it's absolutely true, especially at first. Also, to be any good at teaching, you have to be an active researcher, and vice versa...
...twelve-nation European Community spends $63,000 an hour to store 1.4 million tons of unsold butter in refrigerated warehouses. Its mountain of skimmed-milk powder rose this summer to 988,000 tons. The E.C. is trying to reduce the stocks by feeding the butter to calves and the milk powder to pigs and poultry. But experts estimate that about half the butter and other refrigerated products have deteriorated so badly that they are no longer fit to be eaten by animals, let alone humans...
...country's foreign exchange, has cut its projected 1986 oil revenues from $17 billion to less than $7 billion. That could prove devastating to a nation whose import budget this year is $10 billion. In recent months, stores in Tehran have been chronically short of such staples as butter, rice and lamb. Even economic hardship, however, can serve the regime's interests. Authorities promised one man who was desperate to obtain a TV set that he could have a place on the waiting list -- provided he attend three prayer sessions and three progovernment demonstrations...