Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ostentation of the 1980s vanished; hello, '90s humility. Good intentions became fashionable once more -- even marketable. Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream was a best seller...
Unique among refugee communities, Kuwait itself has the wherewithal to rebuild its nation. The estimated $20 billion in physical damage is severe but not an impediment -- and planning and purchasing for the future are already well under way. Assisted by about 50 U.S. Army civil-affairs reservists, the - cream of Kuwait's ministerial employees have been meeting quietly in a downtown Washington office building for six weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been...
...didn't know that Deli Day existed until I happened upon it in Lowell House a few weeks ago. But, I could hardly complain about missing out on Pioneer Sandwiches and potato coins when Harvard Dining Services was waving lox and cream cheese under my nose...
Kevin's first reaction is ecstasy. He turns his parents' bed into a trampoline, devours mountains of ice cream, looks at the forbidden photos in Playboy ("No clothes on anybody. Sickening"). His excitement wanes with the daylight, however, all the more so since most of the neighbors on his affluent block have also gone away for the holidays. What most scares a child? The bogeyman, of course, and Hughes supplies two comical would-be burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), one of whom has posed as a policeman to find out when the family would be gone. By the time...
...always, some people drown their troubles in alcohol. Others turn to chocolate bars, ice-cream cones or platters of rich food. In the words of Columbia University psychiatrist Jack Gorman, "When things are lousy anyway, who cares about cholesterol?" Many individuals become violent and abusive, usually to those closest at hand. At the House of Ruth, a Washington shelter for battered women, deputy director Dan Byrne reports that the men who are doing the hitting are talking more and more about the economic pressures they feel...