Word: goat
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...decidedly back to basics. Remember onion dip? The Mom Rule has re-emerged as America's primary meal- planning guide: if she never heard of it, don't serve it. With a couple of children in tow, mothers and fathers simply don't have time to hunt for goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes in the supermarket. Marsha Bristow Bostick fondly recalls the leisurely evenings she spent at home before her children were born, ''cooking wonderful things with my husband while we sipped white wine.'' Now? ''We're eating SpaghettiO's, fried chicken, lots of terrible-for- you casseroles covered...
Compared with policing tourists, policing meat imports is relatively easy. For all the seeming sweep of the new restrictions, there is simply not that much to restrict. With beef from the U.K. already banned because of mad-cow disease, the hardest-hit imports will be pork and goat, mostly from the Netherlands and Denmark. Such cooked and cured meats as canned hams, prepared sausages and prosciutto are not affected because heating or processing kills the foot-and-mouth virus. Certain dairy products like yogurt, Brie and hard cheeses are also exempt, since they are already subject to strict manufacturing conditions...
...Well, Alan, all good things must come to an end. As the economy heads south, Greenspan will become the great goat of the recession. He got way too much credit for the good times, and he will get way too much blame for the bad times. In other words, Alan, the way up and the way down are the same...
...There's that old sports adage, "Today's hero is tomorrow's goat." Bill Clinton, are you listening? The media and public opinion can turn on a dime - or, in Clinton's case, on Denise Rich's dime. For the longest time, Tom Cruise was the movie star as mensch - soon, he will be seen as a self-absorbed home-wrecker. Tom, the way up and the way down are the same. And when you're falling, it's Mission Impossible to right yourself...
...game against the University of Southern California, guard Kenny Harley drove to the basket instead of shooting a trey. It is clear that an error occurred; BC needed three points to tie and, instead of shooting a trey, Harley went for two. The next day Harley was the goat, criticized for failing to keep track of the score...