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...Selling failed banks is never a profitable business. But recently, as the credit crunch has gotten crunchier, the cost of cotton-balling kaput countinghouses has gotten a lot costlier. The FDIC had an average loss (based on deposits) of nearly 30% for the 23 bank deals it did in 2008, for which the FDIC released details, according to financial industry consulting firm Ely & Co. That is more than double the average loss of 13% the agency registered on bank rescues in the 17 years prior...
...doesn't KFC use a healthier oil? Like most fast-food chains, KFC cooks with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which doesn't turn rancid as quickly as healthier, nonhydrogenated oils. "Extra crispy" chicken may also taste better when fried in this oil. "The flavor is crunchier, and you don't get that feeling of fat coating your mouth," says Ted Labuza, a food scientist at the University of Minnesota. But the oil does have dangerous trans-fatty acids...
...album’s music, though not entirely classical and certainly far from rock, manages to blend the orchestral approach of Trey’s earlier solo work with the crunchier flavor of Phish’s songs. Anastasio, who is known for his serious devotion to composing, wrote many of Phish’s songs as orchestral miniatures...
...half a dozen or so oils for frying, which can be done in mass- produced, factory-size quantities (approximately 2,500 lbs. an hour in the old-fashioned but newly popular kettle batches (500 lbs. an hour), which cook a good deal more slowly and have a harder, crunchier finish...
...major portion of Author Steen's book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...
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