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...broth. We had the sweet variety, although you can order it salted as well. Another of Shanghai's sweet soups is the sesame rice ball. This is a very sweet broth containing one-inch dough balls filled with sesame seeds. They have the consistency of bubble gum and could choke even the most flexible esophagus. Keep away! If you don't like sweet things, be careful. Shanghai really sugars their stuff...
...north. Colombia has 1,300 miles of jagged coastline, from which it is easy enough to load 20 tons or more of grass aboard freighters, trawlers or large (often stolen) yachts. These mother ships, as they are called, are monitored by the U.S. Coast Guard at a series of "choke points" as they work their way north through the Caribbean. But American authorities have little power as long as the drug ships hover outside the twelve-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Using sophisticated electronic equipment, the smugglers on these mother ships monitor Government surveillance and attempt to rendezvous with...
...like team sports because I like the feeling of being supported. I have the tendency to choke when I feel all the pressure's on me," she says...
...Congress and the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, plea bargaining has been condoned by the U.S. Supreme Court as "essential." It is widely accepted that without deals between the prosecutor and the accused, time-consuming trials would cause many courts to choke on overcrowded dockets. Chief Justice Warren Burger has said that even a 10% reduction in plea bargaining would double the number of trials...
...hedge buying. People may be spending too much of their income now, and their straitened budgets may force them to buy less later on. Consumers have been plunging dangerously into debt; installment credit swelled at record rates in two of the past four months. "The consumer is going to choke on that debt at some point," warns one Government economist. "I don't know where it's going to happen, but there is increasing concern that the debt burden will become too heavy." Mortgage and auto loan rates have climbed to double digits, and at some point those daunting interest...