Word: ma
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Generations have grown up thinking of American Telephone & Telegraph (1982 sales: $65.7 billion) simply as Ma Bell. Last week Federal Judge Harold Greene took away the Bell. Greene ruled that the name as well as the company's blue-and-white telephone logo should belong to A T & T's local phone companies when they split off into seven independent units on Jan. 1, 1984. The judge also decreed that only A T & T's Bell Laboratories and foreign operations could continue using the name...
...Ma chère Maman...
...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...
...menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something exotic." Patrick Terrail, owner of Hollywood's Ma Maison restaurant, had been importing dried mushrooms before he discovered that fresh morels, chanterelles, cepes and other varieties can all be found in the U.S. Says Terrail: "Mushrooms are just beginning to become a craze...
...list of sublime inevitabilities: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." There was once a cultural geographer named Ellsworth Huntington who suggested-ethnocentrically, his critics later said-that people who lived without seasons could never develop character. So much for the mañana cultures. So much, in fact, for San Diego. Such cultures had no Darwinian need for foresight, Huntington thought, no drive to store up nuts for winter. They did not feel that stirring of energy and anticipation and pragmatic dread when the first chill came on, making them think...