Word: caked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a cake-walk-so far. He has raised almost twice as much money as his nearest competitor. The AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, the National Education Association and the National Organization for Women all support him. So do Tip O'Neill, Robert Strauss, perhaps 100 members of the House, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. Concedes a top strategist: "The worst Pollyanna in our bunch wouldn't have been able to predict last December that we would...
...Another bowl of grits won't kill anyone," said Ron White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Dixie Lily corn grits and Martha White's hush puppies, among other goodies...
...California, the state asked Procter & Gamble to take Duncan Hines muffin mixes off the shelves, and in Massachusetts, the public health commissioner recommended that consumers return 46 different cake mixes and grain products to the store. The cause of the panicked shelf cleaning was a chemical called ethylene dibromide, or EDB. A highly effective pesticide similar to DDT, it is also a dangerous carcinogen. Farmers have used EDB to keep bugs off grain and citrus fruit for more than 30 years, and scientists have known the cancer risk for the past ten years. But the Federal Government has been slow...
...must calm down," he said to a packed news conference in Washington, D.C. EDB is generally no longer used to treat grain, and the stored harvest that has been fumigated can be made safe simply by airing it or storing it longer. Most of the cake mix falls below the federally acceptable levels, and cooking will eliminate about 91% of EDB. Ruckelshaus put off any decision on the use of EDB on citrus fruits. Only about 2% of citrus fruits consumed in the U.S. are treated with the chemical. While there are safe alternative pesticides for grain, no entirely safe...
Ever since West German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner announced last month that General Günter Kiessling, 58, had been dismissed from the Bundeswehr because of charges of homosexual activity, the case against the four-star general had been crumbling away like stale cake. Initially, Wörner grandly asserted that Kiessling had been mixing with "criminal elements" at seedy gay bars in Cologne for more than a decade and that this had left him open to blackmail. Kiessling, a bachelor, stoutly denied that he was homosexual or that he had ever visited the bars in question. Gradually...