Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsequious elevator operator at the Ritz whisked me up to the sixth floor conference room, where nine Boston critics were already mingling. Utensils sparkled on the flower-laden table, but no one dared to sit down until lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker and the film's writer, director and producer, David Frankel '81, arrived...
Saturday night at the Cheesecake Factory in Atlanta: the restaurant is packed with customers waiting up to an hour and a half to stuff themselves with slices of fat-laden cheesecake so thick that most will be forced to take home a doggy bag. A half-pound slice of cheesecake may contain 700 calories -- roughly a third of an adult's recommended daily allowance.Manager Michael Moore notes that the Factory's reduced-calorie cheesecakes languished on the shelves when they were introduced last year. "If people want cheesecake, they don't want 'lite,"' he says. "They come to our restaurant...
...permission to fly to Paris. Since the trip normally requires only 10 tons, French officials feared the militants had other plans. One possibility was that they would head for a friendly Islamic country -- perhaps Iran, or Sudan, or Yemen; another that they were scheming to blow up the fuel-laden plane over the capital...
...what of our most critical, nonnegotiable demand, that North Korea ship out of the country the plutonium-laden fuel rods that it brazenly removed from its reactor in May in defiance of the sternest U.S. warnings? From these rods North Korea can make half a dozen Hiroshimas. Did we get them? No. We got more promises. The rods, we are assured, will be out -- in the next century...
...debate laden with philosophical discourse, Brewer argued that individuals should feel equally responsible for members of all races while Sandel contended they should first owe allegiance to their own communities...