Word: colorful
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...present annual rate of 5.3% to 7% next year. A key provision calls for tariff reductions averaging 23% on 318 items, mostly industrial goods. For example, the 6.4% Japanese tariff on imported autos would be entirely eliminated. Tariffs on computers would be dropped from 13.5% to 10.5% and on color film from 16% to 11% -two important items. But quotas on the amount of beef that Japanese hotels can import would only be doubled, to 2,000 Ibs. in the current fiscal year-a laughably small amount, given the hunger of both Japanese and visiting foreigners for steaks and roasts...
Michel Guérard, 44, owner of a three-star restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains, near Lourdes, and foremost practitioner of la cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness: "The most important tool of a chef is his tongue. Taste, taste, taste! And don't forget color. I combine my vegetables the way a painter arranges his colors-until he obtains the exact effect that he wants...
Because of massive oil imports and deep inroads into the American market for steel, color TV, microwave ovens and other products made by aggressive foreign competitors, the U.S. trade deficit is ballooning toward $30 billion, about five times the 1976 figure. That has sent the dollar to new lows against such currencies as the Japanese yen, German mark and Swiss franc, and set off a protectionist clamor for restrictions on imports to save American jobs...
...Hungarian-born electronic whiz and inventor of the 33% r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development is quite useless...
...Iberian peninsula produced a "pyrotechnic blaze of glory" in art and architecture. The illustrations of Gothic spires and gargoyles, flying buttresses and Books of Hours, tombs and tapestries and town halls make the point spectacularly; the text puts it all into historical perspective. There are only 16 color plates, including a breathtaking interior of King's College Chapel in Cambridge, but what surprises and captures the reader is the hundreds of black-and-white photographs that demonstrate anew how glorious the medium...