Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also been reluctant to approve a Soviet request for "most-favored nation" status, a move that would make tariffs on Russian products no higher than the lowest levies applied to America's other trading partners. On caviar, for example, M.F.N. status would mean a tariff of 18% instead...
...will take more than talk to increase trade between the two superpowers. The U.S. presently buys caviar, sable skins, chrome, aluminum scrap and various chemicals from the Soviets, but they have little else of immediate interest to offer American importers. Soviet industrial officials are anxious to acquire high-technology American goods, particularly machine tools and computer software; however, many of the items they desire require special clearance from the Commerce Department because of alleged national security considerations...
...transactions, the piaster would be pegged at 410 to the dollar -close to the black-market rate. Simultaneously, a system of varying exchange rates and customshouse taxes was imposed to make necessities like most foods and plant equipment cheaper to import while raising the cost of luxury items like caviar, Hondas and cars...
...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 of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs with raspberries in the center, champagne sherbet...
...away-at the rate of five pounds per day-on Russian cooking. "This is a lie," roared the Duke. "I weighed about 173 when I left the States. But the way my stomach is sticking out now, I know I weigh a lot more." Besides, he added, "I like caviar." Admitting that the urgency of the mission had been "perhaps exaggerated," a State Department official noted that arrangements had nonetheless been made to provide more U.S. steaks for the Duke...