Word: goat
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...accompaniment of three guitars a hymn that stresses the unity of the members of the Church. At one end of the room, hung on a deep purple drape, is a silver cross; at the other end, over a black curtain, is a red representation of the horned goat of Mendes, a symbol of Satan...
...organic shops can reach for the exotic: carrot cupcakes, sunflower-seed cookies and countless varieties of honey, including alfalfa, avocado, tupelo blossom, eucalyptus, mesquite and thistle. Manhattan's Good Earth market offers 13 varieties of dates (among them Halawy, Khadrawy and Zahidi*), three types of yogurt, including goat, organic ice cream and pizza and 125 types of herbal teas. The strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and chicken can hardly be distinguished from those in conventional markets-except, aficionados insist, by healthfulness and taste. The most striking difference is price: 25% to 50% more than regular foods...
Whether a stock market professional is a bull or bear, there is one sure way to get his goat: imply that investing is comparable to gambling. Howard J. Samuels, who is setting up a string of legal horse-race wagering parlors for New York City, did just that last week. He disclosed that his Offtrack Betting Corp. planned to run ads headlined: IF YOU'RE IN THE STOCK MARKET, YOU MIGHT FIND THIS A BETTER...
Pentagon officials have long conceded that there are bound to be some "horror stories" among the approximately 22,000 contracts that the military services let each year. Kaufman insists that "literally every contract is a horror story." He cites case after case of overruns, from the Gama Goat, an amphibious cargo carrier that cost $304 million more than expected to develop, to the C-5A and General Dynamics' F-111 fighter-bombers, which went up from $4,000,000 to $13.7 million each...
Born in a goat-hair tent to a family of desert nomads, Gaddafi combines the traits of a hell-fire-and-damnation preacher, a willful millionaire and a Western-movie gunslinger. Last November, when Syrian General Hafez Assad toppled his Baathist rivals and took over, Gaddafi jetted into Damascus to inspect the new leader. He demonstrated his approval by leaving a check for $10 million. Like a political jack-in-the-box, Gaddafi has flown, unannounced, to Egypt for spur-of-the-moment meetings with Nasser and to Algeria for discussions with President Houari Boumedienne. When a group of Sudanese...