Word: cereality
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...Africa and Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose. They were competing in four events -- distance, time aloft, aerobatics and aesthetic design...
...round of global trade-liberalization talks. Mitterrand has balked, arguing that such negotiations would invite U.S. attacks on West European farm policies and high agricultural tariffs. Finally, the French decry West Germany's refusal, at European Community agricultural-policy negotiations in Brussels three weeks ago, to accept cereal-price reductions that would hurt West German grain farmers...
...truckers are lining up for seconds at the breakfast buffet (all you can eat for $3.99 -- biscuits with chipped-beef gravy, fruit cup, French toast with syrup, bacon, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, doughnuts, Danish, cereal in little boxes...
...anyone afflicted with a craving for saccharin in a cup of coffee or on a bowl of breakfast cereal, there is good news. The Senate last week moved to permit its continued use by a vote of 94 to 1. Easy approval is expected in the House...
...watching the children are as much issues for traditional couples of moderate income who work simply to make ends meet. But the lack of job satisfaction sometimes exacerbates difficulties. Joy Johnson, a Chicago clinical therapist, cites the case of a woman who works at a factory, stuffing coupons into cereal boxes. Says Johnson: "There is nothing stimulating about it. At the end of the day she turns to her marriage to make up for what she didn't get during the day." Johnson says that the woman is so demanding "her husband feels she is going...