Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause is not racial, ethnic, religous or sexual in nature. It is digestive. Since the age of 13, I have been unable to digest milk and some diary products including cream, soft cheeses and, yes ice cream. In technical terms, my name is Josh, and I am lactose intolerant...
Element 1: Lactose intolerants are the frequent victims of insensitivity. As surprising as this may sound, people who have not tasted the creamy delight of ice cream in eight years do not like to be constantly reminded of this fact...
...every lunch and dinner for the past three years, my roommate turns on all his Texas charm and asks whether he can get me some ice cream. "Whoops!" he pretends to remember. "You can't digest it! HAHAHAHAHA! [slurp...
What could be more American than Good Humor ice cream? Or the 60-year-old fizz of Alka-Seltzer? Or the Thermos bottle? Well, these familiar trademarks now belong to someone else: the Dutch and the British, the West Germans and the Japanese, respectively. So do such U.S.-born corporate names as Smith Corona, Brooks Brothers and Pillsbury (all British); General Electric TV sets and home electronics (French); Wilson Sporting Goods (Finnish); and Carnation (Swiss). Last year foreign investors acquired nearly 400 U.S. businesses, worth a total of $60 billion. That was 61% more than the previous year and represented...
...exist almost everywhere in China -- watchdog groups that keep an eye on everyone and everything -- are unnecessary in Wu's village. In tone and in fact, he controls almost every aspect of village life -- and the villagers have prospered thanks to his wisdom. When income from the local ice-cream factory fell short of projections, Wu converted the plant to a successful cotton-fabric operation in six months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because it was so muddy -- be tapped...