Word: crabbed
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...private room at a posh Shinjuku crab restaurant, five twentysomethings surround Noboru Koyama, 60-year-old CEO of Tokyo cleaning company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch - it's 8:30 p.m. - and announces that the party is moving: "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...
...second varsity boat was also unlucky, after whittling down an initial Bulldog lead to move into the front with one mile to go. The late run would fall short when the boat was forced to stop briefly after one oarsman caught a crab in the last thousand meters, giving Yale a chance to push past the Crimson for an 18-second victory...
When the Harvard College Women’s Center (HCWC) opened last September, hundreds of students, faculty, administrators and alumnae filled the space, sipping on punch, eating crab puffs, and listening to laudatory speeches from deans and vaunted faculty. The Radcliffe Pitches infused the evening’s energy with their spirited harmonies. Suddenly, in the midst of the joyful chaos of that evening, I felt a hand touch my arm from the middle of the crowd. A well-dressed woman of about 50 years stepped toward me, a bit tentatively, and whispered...
...Lagoon's dozen tented rooms offer simple, rustic comforts underneath thick Makuti thatch. Its handful of suites - a more recent addition to the resort costing another witch doctor and a couple of goats - boast plunge pools and space for private dining. Just make sure you're hungry: dishes like crab ravioli in white wine and saffron sauce or grilled squillfish, all served up by local staff, make the best of what the island's waters offer...
...delay the inevitable shutdown that comes from dying demand or global competition. In the quiet shore town of Oriental, N.C., for instance, the Garland Fulcher Seafood Co. turned to guest workers after locals stopped applying for jobs as pickers, who are given the cruelly repetitive task of prying blue-crab meat out of the shell. But the company is now out of the crab-picking business altogether: not even a guest-worker program could save it from the plunging crab market. Even though it's situated near a rich and storied crab fishery, Garland Fulcher's only business...