Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sterile political feuds, Quebec has witnessed a dramatic upturn in its economy. Three new office towers are adding nearly 2 million sq. ft. of office space to Montreal's thriving real estate market. Other construction -- apartments, condominiums, new hotels -- is altering the Montreal skyline so fast that photographs taken only a year ago are already outdated. In Quebec City the building of a new downtown convention center and hotel complex has left the old historic quarter essentially unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow...
...short piano repertoire, full of inspiration, yet never stifled by the brevity of the form. Within each short movement, the composer achieved a broad range of expression. His 'romantic' was romantic--resplendent in rolling arpeggios and octave runs. His 'energetic' evoked a clockwork sort of busy-ness with fast chromatic fingerwork; and his 'mysterious' combined bright interjections from the right hand over dense tone clusters and sombre, meandering notes in the bass to set a mood of eerie expectancy...
Nepotism looms especially large as China prepares to name a new generation of leaders. Those moving up on the fast track include Li Tieying, 50, a likely Politburo member whose father was a Communist Party founder, and Ye Xuanping, 62, the governor of Guangdong province and son of the late Marshal Ye Jianying. Their defenders argue that such leaders should not be barred from advancement merely because they happen to be well connected. "An unqualified person should not be appointed simply because his father is a high official," says Tianjin Mayor Li Ruihuan. "Nor should one be denied promotion simply...
With their ready-to-eat chicken products, the fowl combatants hope to pluck some feathers from such fast-food chains as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. "They have siphoned off about 20% of supermarket poultry sales in the past five years," estimates Kent Hill, a marketing executive for Holly Farms. That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan...
...general, these cooked products cost twice as much as comparable cuts of raw chicken, but they are about one-third less expensive than fast-food counterparts. And though there are minor differences in preserving, cooking and packaging techniques, both companies follow roughly the same procedures. Chickens are injected with water (Holly Farms) or broth (Perdue), along with seasonings and such preservatives as dextrose, sodium phosphate, malic or citric acid; many of the Farms products also contain vegetable or coconut oil. Though several samples from both processors were bloody, the meat is generally cooked until well done to kill bacteria...