Word: charcoaling
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...make gasoline and thus boost costs for refiners. Thomas estimates the additional cost to be $450 million a year, or 1/2 cent per gal. at the gas pump. But oil companies say the burden would be more like $2 billion. The second proposal would require automakers to enlarge the charcoal canisters that are placed inside gas tanks to reduce the emission of fumes. Thomas says this modification would add only $19 to the sticker price of a typical car, but automakers argue that the hike could be as high as $80 in the first year...
...good for the time being, Michel thinks, but what he has in mind | for the boys is a larger education. Before he is through, they will all be citoyens du monde. He uncorked a bottle of vin rouge and placed a large, juicy slab of meat on the charcoal grill. He looked serene, and if there were a word to sum up why, it would have to be a French one, naturally. Debrouillardise, say. Roughly, it means to know your way around...
...know, B.C., B.U., Harvard and Northeastern players don't regularly gather for cozy barbeques or anything like that. If they did, would the three losers have to get the charcoal lighted and make sure that there were plenty of condiments for the victors...
...cabin of the shrimp boat, bound for the Gulf of Mexico, are these: one Sunbeam Master Chef charcoal grill, three spatulas hanging from eye hooks, a slicker, half a dozen greasy life jackets, a pan full of plastic dishes, a box of Zatarain's crab boil (since 1889), a bottle of Hunt's All Natural barbecue sauce, a bottle of Seven Seas Viva Italian dressing, a bottle of Formula 409 all-purpose cleaner, a can of Bush's Best whole-kernel golden corn, a can of Shurfine early harvest sweet peas, a can of La Choy meatless chow mein...
...will perform during Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach towels, Liberty dry-roasted peanuts, Liberty tobacco. Moreover, Adams probably could not have conceived how practically everyone in a country of 240 million might be very nearly sated with a celebration that is yet to occur...