Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years ago, the McGuanes moved out of Paradise Valley to their current spread near McLeod (pop. 5). In the cozy living room of his log-cabin house, McGuane throws another chunk of cottonwood on the fire as Laurie whips up a pot of hearty chicken soup in the kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher...
...bipartisan effort to beef up the FDA's anemic annual budget by setting a floor level of $500 million, vs. the current total of $492 million. Their proposal would also provide the FDA with a single facility -- currently, it is spread across 22 buildings in Washington, from converted chicken coops to renovated Army barracks. Even regulated industries, fearing a loss of consumer confidence, are demanding a stronger FDA. The agency, as former FDA official Peter Barton Hutt puts it, "is a precious national resource, and we shouldn't squander...
...spent $5 million more than the $46 million Congress provided to seek a cure for the disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When an emergency comes along," says one FDA official...
...when you can pour it out of Brooke Shields' head? Whether they are teapots for art's sake or art for the sake of taking tea, ceramics critic Clark has cataloged the fun. The Kentucky Fried Teapot has the head of Colonel Sanders and the body of a plucked chicken...
...after the vandalism, dorm residents spent two hours repairing the lights, supported on chicken wire which Hsiao strengthened in response to the attacks said Erik W. Larson...