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...Taylors bid for the big dark bay on the advice of a friend, Veterinarian James Hill. His backstretcher's eye had spotted something special in the gangly colt. The three retired to a motel room and a bottle of bourbon for the joyful chore of naming No. 128 and toasting future victories. They settled on Seattle Slew-after the sibilant city closest to the Taylors' home in White Swan, Wash, (pop. 400), and the swampy Florida bottom lands, or slews, where Hill was raised. Since then, Seattle Slew has given the Taylors seven occasions to hoist a glass...
...contrast, the rebate would start out in the $300 range for the most economical cars (those that get 39 miles or more to the gallon) and rise to a maximum of $500 by 1985. The distribution of such a variety of rebates would doubtless be a burdensome bureaucratic chore. The purpose of the plan is to give U.S. manufacturers time to shift to the smaller models that have long been the province of European and Japanese manufacturers. But foreign-made autos will get no breaks under the Carter program. They will qualify for rebates only if their U.S. sales...
...area where the living had been easy, life was suddenly a chore. The same wild weather conditions that had isolated Buffalo in the snow-and frozen Florida's oranges-had also aggravated the 13-month drought that has plagued eight Western states. A high-pressure system lay off the West Coast, diverting winds northward to pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin...
...children id line by threatening to toss them out for missing one rehearsal. There is not much he can do about the parents. One mother actually strode onstage during a key rehearsal and grabbed her child away because the family was having a dinner party. "It's a chore," Stevenson confesses. "But the merit is getting the children into the theater both on the stage and in the audience." At a performance in San Antonio, he says, "you could hear the children in the audience screaming with joy when Fritz scares Clara with the rat. There is no other...
...France, cooking has been described as the art of making leftovers taste good. In America, cooking is usually considered a chore, not an art, and leftovers are to be swallowed with one's pride. But 400 years on the alimentary canal is not a long stretch for the development of a national cuisine. Europeans had more than twice that long. The Chinese have had millenniums. Instead of time, Americans have had abundance-and a level of consumption triumphantly buoyed up by waste. In Eating in America the authors offer ample evidence of the relationship between waste and taste...