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...little miffed. As usual, he's been up since dawn, fishing for a living off the coast of Kaikoura, a town in the north-east corner of the South Island. Blast, it shouldn't be this cold in October. And seagulls keep pecking at the crate-loads of hoki stacked on the deck of his boat. He's also been let down by a helper who's scampered before the day's work is done. Which gets him started on how, as he sees it, the government favors certain types of people. "Basically, people who haven...
...thing for The Eagle in London's hip Clerkenwell district to modernize bangers and mash with an uncompromising concern for good ingredients served in daunting sizes, but things have gotten out of hand when your local boozer starts offering "a flaky pastry pillow filled with cod, hoki [sic] and salmon." And it's not reassuring when that exotic-sounding concoction turns out to be a humble fish pie. Alistair Aird, editor of the Good Pub Guide, has watched in dismay as British pubs have caught the disease of pretentious French restaurants: menu inflation. In the 2003 edition of his guide...
...inexpensive-to-moderate price category. Says Advertising Director Don Lum: "We've seen a significant increase in fish consumption in the past two years." Their expanded line offers for between $5 and $8 complete main courses such as shrimp, lobster, crab, salmon, New Zealand whitefish, orange roughy, John Dory, hoki, halibut and swordfish. And the Dallas-based TGI Friday's Inc., with 104 locations in 31 states, now has 20 to 25 fish dishes on its menu, compared with two or three in 1977. Says Greg Dollarhyde, vice president of finance for Friday's: "They are shifting from heavy fried...
...department also offers "Portugese for Business," which Assistant Professor Naomi Hoki Moniz says is particularly relevant after Portugal's recent entry into the European Common Market...
Dayan considered Hassan's message so important that he returned to Israel-to Premier Begin's surprise-for discussions and perhaps fresh instructions. The Foreign Minister spent 80 minutes with Begin and three top aides: Major General Yitzhak Hoki, head of Mossad (Israel's equivalent of the CIA), Brigadier General Ephraim Poran, Begin's intelligence adviser, and Eliahu Ben-Eliassar, director-general of the Premier's office. Dayan discussed the need for alternative diplomatic approaches in case of a Geneva conference impasse. He also urged Begin to tone down all talk of new settlements, including...