Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official's bullying superior, and a whole slew of secrets unwisely unearthed. The daring mingling of genres works rather better than the cluttered plot. Most memorable are the scenes of the central character, a wilder version of the bright boy who is the schoolteacher's beneficiary in The Corn Is Green. Even in this messy story, those passages could make believers of many who have given up too soon on the mystery as literature...
Among his most memorable creations is modeling chocolate, which he perfected while working at the Four Seasons. It is a blend of semisweet chocolate, corn syrup and water that solidifies in any shape it has been sculptured into. The stuff tastes like a Tootsie Roll, but its durability was the key to Kumin's perfection of flourless cakes. He constructs artful boxes of modeling chocolate and fills them with rich puddings or mousses...
Under Daschle's plan, ethanol makers would be able to purchase the corn at 110 percent of the government's acquisition price. Much of the corn in Agriculture Department bins now was acquired long before the drought sent crop prices skyrocketing...
...South Dakotan said he designed the provision to help small ethanol makers, but it could represent a substantial benefit for the the Archer Daniels Midland Co., the large Decatur, Illinois corn processing company that makes the lion's share of U.S. ethanol...
...case, Daschle won voice vote approval of an alteration that would terminate the program next September I and limit the total use of corn in the program to 16 million bushels a month...