Word: containability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which were supposed to supplant "real" products, are not quite as palatable and problem free as once thought. Imitation meats, for example, are marketed as low in cholesterol and calories, but they tend to be extravagantly high in salt. Many nondairy creamers are touted as cholesterol free, though they contain coconut oil, a highly saturated...
...export-decontrol momentum is building. In a notable change of philosophy, the U.S. recently went along with a COCOM decision to remove controls on shipments of personal computers. Likewise, the two trade bills approved by the House and Senate both contain provisions that would prevent the Government from restricting U.S. sales of high-tech items that other industrial nations already sell on the open market. The movement will no doubt meet some resistance. North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms is threatening to block the confirmation of C. William Verity, President Reagan's nominee to become Commerce Secretary, on the ground...
...strikes and protests. "Things just keep getting worse," says Tamas, 19, a blue jeans-clad vegetable seller in Budapest. "Everyone I know thinks there's going to be an explosion." The challenge for Hungary's rulers, as for Moscow's innovative Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, will be to contain such public discontent long enough for the economic reforms to bear fruit...
...Board also will consider today the case of a sixth student, who was Patterson's roommate last winter, who made a second phone call to the Black student at the bell desk five minutes after the one with a racial slur. That second phone call did not contain a racial slur...
...keys to the successful afternoon was the Crimson's ability to contain confident NU quarterback Jim O'Leary, who managed to chalk up 192 yards on the ground in the Huskies' first two games when he wasn't busy deceiving opposing defenses into foolish pursuits...