Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair, then slitting their throats. In fact, he decides to kill everyone, rich or poor, who sits in his chair--the rich because they are evil and the poor because they are miserable. Mrs. Lovett thinks this is a fine plan, since the pie business has been slow, and meat is scarce... Karl Marx, meet the Leatherface family...
...Betty (Heather Gunn) says, "you can't believe everything you hear," and most of the people Charlie (Jon Blackstone) meets have something to hide. Meat-packing heiress Catherine Simms (Brodie Fisher), overzealous building inspector Owen Musser (Steve Lyne), and even the saintly Reverend David Lee (Jon Finks), Catherine's fiance, reveal their secrets in his presence, thinking he won't understand...
...hard edge returned when Nixon compared Gorbachev with two other Soviet leaders he had dealt with: "Unlike ((Nikita)) Khrushchev, he has no inferiority complex. He is totally confident, in command, and secure . . . Gorbachev is as tough as ((Leonid)) Brezhnev but better educated, more skillful, more subtle . . . Brezhnev used a meat axe in his negotiations. Gorbachev uses a stiletto. But beneath the velvet glove he always wears there is a steel fist...
Devices are being designed that will allow fitness-conscious Americans to take precise readings on their own. This spring Futrex, in Gaithersburg, Md., plans to introduce a hand-held computerized analyzer. Borrowing technology developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the nutritional content of meat and grain, the device beams near infrared light on the arm. As the light passes through the flesh, fat absorbs specific wavelengths; light emitted through the skin is then picked up by a detector. The computer translates the information into percent body fat. Cost of the device: around...
...going slow. We're just starting to get into the meat of the issue," said Thomas V. Gaudioso, president of the 1100-member service and maintenance union, which is for the first time negotiating in conjunction with the clerical and technical workers' union...