Word: mignone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although nutrition subsidies are important, there is one that ought to be eliminated. Those who get upset over Reaganesque tales of free-loaders buying steaks with food stamps should be infuriated by the program that allows rich investment bankers to dine on filet mignon at the taxpayers' expense...
...reclusive Yves Saint Laurent skateboarding a la Kelly through Paris' seedier neighborhoods? Picture crusty Karl Lagerfeld nude from the waist up, posing for Vanity Fair, with red buttons over his nipples and 16 satin bows on his pigtails? Such antics have charmed the powerful French fashion press. "Le mignon petit noir Americain," enthused one Paris newspaper -- although in America being called a cute little black would seem more like an insult...
...trade restraints begin to fall this month, beef sales in Japan are likely to boom. Cuts like filet mignon, which sells for up to $43 per lb. in Tokyo, should become much more affordable. Thanks in part to spacious grazing land and plentiful feed, American-grown beef is much less expensive to produce than the Japanese variety. "In three to five years, we expect to be selling three times our current monthly volume of 1,200 head of cattle," says Kazuhiro Ogasawara, vice president of Mt. Shasta Beef...
Philip Schaefer had come cross-country from San Francisco to enrich Michael Dukakis' campaign treasury. It was a fine evening, Schaefer recalled, but he was surprised that his $1,000 ticket bought snacks instead of filet mignon. "Governor," joked the Democratic fund raiser, "never have so many paid so much to eat so little." "What do you mean?" shot back Dukakis, reveling in his reputation for parsimony. "We had an open...
Although the more than 25 guests at last night's dinner for Cambridge city leaders and Harvard administrators dined on filet mignon and asparagus salad, the main course was a discussion of the university's and students' commitments to community service...