Word: cooks
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Potentially the most far-reaching scandal involved the Cook County circuit court, the nation's largest such unified system. The court for the past three years has been the target of an undercover federal investigation conducted by about 200 members of the Justice Department and the FBI. Local judicial circles were speculating that indictments would eventually implicate individuals at every level, from judges who accept case-fixing bribes, to lawyers who offer them, to police officers and clerks who act as go-betweens...
...Teton River Dam collapse in Idaho destroyed a motel they had owned for nearly 13 years. After the U.S. Government paid them about $100,000 for their loss, they invested $80,000 of it in Nos. 4 and 5 bonds. Says Bettie, who now works as a cook at the local high school: "You wouldn't believe how frugally we have lived and how frugally we will have to live. I haven't been sleeping. Not a wink...
...cook to every ten guests is a rule of thumb. The restaurant run by perhaps the greatest cook in Kyoto, Moto Nagata, seats ten people, and no tip will get you in; the Japanese rarely accept tips. Such cooking flourishes because few Japanese entertain at home. Phrases like "home cooking" do not translate into Japanese with their overtones intact. They suggest strain and bumbling, not warmth and sincerity...
...accommodate the sophisticated, independent-minded traveler, Thomas Cook Inc.-which originated the package tour in the 19th century-trains all its counselors to interview customers about their special hobbies and interests. Says Rod Fensom, Cook's Chicago-based field marketing manager: "Americans are more involved with self-enrichment travel tailored to their own individual tastes. There is a resurgence of charter travel this year to single destinations. Gone are the days of the 'If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium' tourist...
That may seem like an unusual business credo, but it has apparently worked for Ted Badgerow, 32, the president and co-founder of Real Ale, a tiny brewery that opened last September near Ann Arbor, Mich. He plans to produce about 600 bbl. this year. Badgerow, a former cook, is one of a growing number of proprietors of so-called microbreweries, which specialize in richer and more flavorful suds than the typical American beer. Such breweries have been winning intense local followings wherever they appear. "The micros are a response to the demand for more elegant beer that sprang...