Word: hams
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...over cheaper bananas from Latin America sold by U.S. firms Chiquita and Dole. The E.U. promised to reduce those quotas from 850,000 to 750,000, and the U.S., in exchange, will lift price-doubling retaliatory tariffs on European imports ranging from French handbags to British linens and Danish ham, tariffs the Clinton administration felt justified in imposing after it won a WTO decision on the dispute...
...curtain calls and launch into a so-called prolongation - an improvised monologue in which he extols Céline's genius, chides people for coughing during his performance, mimics President Jacques Chirac (who attended one of the first performances), and even mocks himself about being such an egregious ham. In fact, Luchini's entire existence seems like a prolongation of his stage performance...
...dispatched army troops to the border to prevent animals from crossing the boundary. The threat of the plague bounding onto the Continent whipped other European countries, newly roused by their recent battles against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse), into a paranoid frenzy. Border inspectors examined everything from car tires to ham sandwiches for traces of foot-and-mouth. Tourists from the U.K. were ordered to disinfect their feet upon arrival in Portugal. Possible symptoms of the disease were reported in Belgium. Although initial tests for the virus on a pig farm near the town of Diksmuide were negative, all 323 pigs...
...Adebayo couldn't believe that a top official of an administration hailed for its sensitivity to blacks would countenance such misconduct. Her lawyer sent Browner a letter in March 1997, declaring that Coleman-Adebayo thought that Browner was being "deliberately kept out of the loop" about the "crude and ham-fisted" treatment she was receiving from a network of "good old boys" who dominated the agency's middle management. She got back a letter from Browner's chief of staff saying that since Coleman-Adebayo's complaint was under investigation, Browner wouldn't discuss it. Frustrated, Coleman-Adebayo went...
Would a tax cut help? The local businessmen say yes--extra cash would inspire folks to start buying again. But the views of their employees are more complex. Fresh off the 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift at Mead, Joey Depew, 25, devours a ham-and-cheese omelet at a local luncheonette. He and his wife Christie, who delivers for Pizza Hut, have two small children and are in the process of buying their first home. "A tax cut could help pay the mortgage," says Joey, who goes on to recite by heart most of the numbers from...