Word: dish
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...father was Robert Blake, 67, former child star (Our Gang), movie actor (In Cold Blood) and TV cop (Baretta). Bakley married Blake last November. On the night of May 4, it was Blake who ran breathlessly into Vitello's, where he was a regular (a spinach and pasta dish is named for him) and where he had just had dinner with Bakley. He asked for a drink of water and told the waiters he'd found Bakley slumped over in the passenger seat of his black Dodge Stealth. He first asked them to call 911 and then said...
...universal remote cannot control a pet rock, much less a satellite dish. First you have to take it around and introduce it to each gadget in turn, punching in the proper code for each make and model, so that the remote knows what signals to send to which device. With some remotes, this phase is sheer torture. The extremely fancy Philips Pronto ($399), for example, forced me to watch 20 minutes of Chains of Love before I could figure out how to change the channel on my TV. No one should have to go through that...
...Before signing a bad check, take heed: nonsufficient-funds (NSF) fees continue to rise as banks pursue profits. In the past six months, the average bank fee for bouncing a check was up 2.4%, from $23.87 to $24.45. That's on top of NSF fees you may have to dish out to an angry retailer. Consider overdraft protection: though most banks charge a small fee for it, customers with several accounts may get it free...
...available on, say, Expedia - a legitimate move designed to draw customers and thus avoid having to pay commissions to the independent agents. However, opponents say, if the Big Five get together, they are likely to offer such fares on their own combination site, thus providing an online petri dish for anticompetitive collusion. At first, say critics, those fares will beat those of their competitors, but once the competitors are forced into submission - either by bankruptcy or "if you can't beat them, join them - the prices will be jacked...
...what Americans do best. Like many Americans, Nish himself is a mix. His ancestry happens to include Japanese (the name Nish is short for Nishimura, changed by his father to duck anti-Japanese sentiment). Growing up in Queens, Nish watched his father and his Maltese mother try to recreate dishes from home. "They always had to substitute ingredients," he recalls. "But that didn't mean the dish had less integrity. It's a practice as old as time; Marco Polo didn't sell spices from new countries with recipe books. It's simply evolution at work...