Word: chop
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...secret is out, thanks to the growing popularity of restaurants where the customer is the chef. Long a staple of immigrant communities in big cities, restaurants where diners chop, grill, boil or dip their food are hot in the heartland. St. Paul, Minn., has Thai hot-pot cooking. Indianapolis, Ind., has Japanese shabu-shabu (another type of hot pot). A pizzeria in Las Vegas lets customers roll the dough. Do-it-yourself s'mores are big in Houston. A national fondue chain is booming...
...village chiefs whom Li's father had criticized were to blame, and unable to get any help from police, Li, then 21, gathered his meager life savings and trekked from Shandong to the capital. There, he began endlessly ferrying documents from one government agency to another, hoping each official chop from this bureau or that office might result in an inquiry into his father's death...
...Parmalat officials. Enrico Bondi, a corporate bailout wizard installed by the Italian government, is trying to salvage the company. A Parmalat spokesman told TIME that a draft company-restructuring plan will be submitted this week. The Parma soccer team, once run by Stefano, is almost certainly destined for the chop...
...stakes are only growing as the situation in Iraq worsens. On Tuesday U.N. Secretary-General Annan was at the White House, being fed a venison chop and fruit-tart souffle, when he was asked ever so politely whether he could just take the whole Iraq mess off the U.S.'s hands. Bush is sticking to his July 1 deadline for transferring power to the Iraqis through a complex scheme of 18 regional caucuses--a plan hatched in November without the U.N. in the room. But Shi'ites are holding out for direct elections, and the Iraqi Governing Council suggests that...
...stray from a long-standing platform. There were powerful visual images ("I want to save at the center of government and send services and assistance to communities on the edge") as well as clever lines (Howard's "waiting-list nation"). And, as Latham spoke from memory, with karate-chop hand gestures, somehow he seemed to embody Labor's traditional message of "opportunity...