Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to understand what all the fuss is about. But just as the art expert will never be able to convey to the color-blind woman at the Picasso exhibit what she's missing, the bagel-lover will have a hard time converting the uninitiated. The allure of the fresh, well-made bagel, alas, defies verbal explanation. And yet despite this handicap, in recent years the bagel has been popularized across the nation, a development which culminated in the Dunkin' Donuts chains decision to enter the bagel-making field. In cities such as Memphis and Atlanta, bagels are becoming everything...
Boycott pressure forces about 200 table grape growers to sign three-year contracts with the United Farm Workers (UFW), Chavez' labor union. The contracts ensure decent wages, medical care, a pension plan, fresh drinking water and clean toilets in the fields...
...record as a "real world" businessman that he claims makes him appealing as a prospective Governor. Fresh from Harvard's M.B.A. program (where he sported hair down to his shoulders), the twentysomething Checchi rose quickly through the ranks at Marriott by arranging clever financing for hotel developments at home and abroad. Hired in his 30s by the secretive Bass brothers of Texas, he helped them acquire a 25% stake in then troubled Disney, pocketing a reported $50 million for himself in the process. His work with Disney helped him befriend Hollywood heavyweights like Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz...
...woman's--that had been frozen for more than two years. Unlike Bobbi McCaughey, this woman could not be helped by fertility drugs. She had suffered ovarian failure and could produce no eggs, no matter how much medication she took. Her best option would have been to accept a fresh egg from a donor. But she had agreed to this experimental procedure instead, on the condition that her privacy would be jealously guarded...
Finally, after a third failure, they tried a different approach: doctors retrieved a fresh batch of eggs, and this time they used assisted zona hatching, in which the egg's membrane, known as the zona pellucida, is chemically weakened so sperm can penetrate more easily. (Another way to do this is to drill a tiny hole in the egg; both methods are less tricky than full-fledged ICSI.) Their son, Eric Richard, was born in October...