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...early champion of American food, said, "It doesn't matter if it's regional, Momma or Aunt Hattie. If it's good, it's worth saving." But he warned that the conserving must be done with expertise. Many hope that New York Times Food Editor Craig Claiborne is equally correct with his prediction: "I don't think we're going back to plain old pot roast. We're not going back to Jell-O That's ridiculous...
...entrepreneurs' starry-eyed projections are correct, by 1986 revenues for the entire industry could top $500 million. Comet, the familiar household cleanser, is sensibly considering an ad campaign based on Halley's. Retailers, ever alert for novelty, have been drawn irresistibly toward an event that occurs only once every 75 years. Declares Owen Ryan, president of General Comet Industries in New York: "It's the celestial version of the Olympics...
...each, when he knew perfectly well that he had made only one. If some gray-haired bank teller had inadvertently given him a $1,000 bill, the Target would have given it back, but he did not feel quite so certain that he had a moral obligation to correct the computer's error. Perhaps it would be easier to be moral if the computer had given him only $10, but would it be utterly wrong to do nothing? With winter coming on and the furnace muttering in the cellar, the Target felt that he needed the $1,000 more than...
...your piece "Historic Cometary Tales," you are correct in saying that comets had a probable role in the origin of life by bringing with them the chemical precursors of life, in the form of amino acids and other molecules. However, this theory was suggested by me almost 25 years ago, and not as you say by the scientists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel. Joan Oró, Professor Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences University of Houston Houston...
...question, publicly at least, the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Yet in his patient but dogged style, Deng has continually tested the doctrine's outer limits. Says Rong Yiren, chairman of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation: "He is convinced that the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism are correct but also that the ideology should develop along with the society...