Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill directs the Food and Drug Administration to draft standard definitions of such terms as light, low fat, reduced calories and high fiber, which are routinely bandied about on everything from cereal boxes to mayonnaise jars and tortilla-chips packages. The FDA will allow health claims only in areas where scientifically valid links between diet and health have been established. About 60% of the roughly 20,000 food labels in supermarkets display information about the calories, vitamins and minerals contained in various foods. When the FDA completes its work, labels will also have to disclose the number of calories derived...
...none of these reasons captures the true horror of long-distance love. I hate distant relationships because of the way they enslave lovestruck collegiates. No freedom is allowed for those unlucky ones joined by the fiber optic umbilical cord...
...answer is that in the age of the fax and the fiber-optic cable, federation is the future. But federation works only under the condition of freedom. Otherwise what passes for federation is really colonialism. And though colonialism had a good 500-year run, it is spent. The only way to turn colonial empires into real federations is to allow them to break up into their constituent parts and hope that in their wisdom they will see fit to knit themselves back together again...
...acquiring such choice firms as John Lobb, the prestigious British shoemaker, and Cristalleries de St. Louis, the 223-year- old French glassware manufacturer. Fancy a pair of calfskin-clad garden shears? (They will set you back $475.) A jungle-print bath towel? ($525.) A suitcase made of carbon fiber, adapted from the sheathing on the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket? ($5,450.) Dumas has expanded the product line to 30,000 items...
...which oversee the public lands, are empowered to sell timber rights to the highest bidder, and sell they have -- a staggering 5 billion board feet a year, sweeping away 70,000 acres of old- growth forest annually. What is grown in its stead is not forest but "fiber," as the timber industry refers to wood...