Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell the Government $7,000 coffeemakers and $600 toilet seats. They maintain that defense companies, far from destitute, are simply earning less than the bloated profits they once viewed as their birthright. Says Dina Rasor, director of the private Project on Military Procurement: "It's like taking a fifth hot-fudge sundae from a fat man, and he complains that you're starving...
...application of economic methods to social problems, it stressed the "hard sciences" as a basis for formulating public policy. The students' course evaluations bear the memory of that time, listing the mathematical and statistical skills needed for taking each course. That was a period when game theory was hot, and such games can all be played in the mind. "Field experience" does not make one a theoretician...
...taste of the real Atlanta, every delegate should "drop a dog at the Varsity." This sprawling landmark is where the pillars of society line up with hoi polloi for chili-topped hot dogs, cayenne-zapped onion rings and a cool, thick orange frosted. And to see local journalists at play, conventioneers can go to Manuel's Tavern, the spot for cold beer, spicy Buffalo chicken wings, lusty chili and burgers...
...Omni Hotel, which offers decent, if second-rate, Italian food in a comfortable setting. Far better is Nikolai's Roof, atop the Atlanta Hilton. Despite an annoying 6:30 and 9:30 seating policy and an altogether corny menu recitation, the sparkling little supper club offers winy hot borscht, herbed rack of lamb, roasted guinea hen in a lemony olive sauce and a gently sweet banana-almond souffle. Asked why there was not more Russian food on the menu, the waiter answered, "The Czar Nikolai ate only French food." Smart...
...hot in there, and then we saw the water exhibit and said 'let's go.' Of course I've been running around after the kids the whole time in here, but it is alot of fun," says Miller, while two of her co-counselors marvelled over the five foot bubble display...