Word: chews
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...nuances of flavor order several pieces of chocolate with varying percentages of cacao beans. While the confections and connoisseurship may be less rarefied at the more mainstream shops, they too encourage customers to linger. At Ethel's, which promotes itself as "a place to chocolate and chitchat," patrons can chew the butterfat over the chocolate trivia cards planted at a few tables...
...million deficit in the final quarter of 1985 and is expected to drop almost $200 million more in the first three months of this year. Concludes Robert Joedicke, an airline industry expert for the Shearson/Lehman Bros. investment firm: "Icahn has bitten off more than he can chew." The chairman, though, is maintaining a brave front. Says he: "I was looking for a challenge...
...Chew) lives in the Richmond section of San Francisco, but she left her heart in China. Proudly unassimilated, Mom replies to her English-speaking children in impeccable Cantonese. Nor will she surrender to Occidental displays of emotion. To give thanks or praise or a show of love to her No. 1 daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew) would be to compromise her matriarchal authority. She will only goad Geraldine to marry that nice Chinese-American doctor from Los Angeles. Then an old woman can follow a fortune teller's prophecy and turn to the business of dying...
THIS ISN'T A CHEW...
...growing number of cities around the world fed up with the gunk on their sidewalks. In London, representatives from Belfast, Cardiff and other British cities gathered last month for a summit on gum pollution. London's Oxford Street alone is smeared with some 300,000 bits of used gum; chew-goo cleanup costs Britain an estimated $290 million a year. A new bill in Parliament would fine gum droppers...