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Taste is a severe taskmaster at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. The not-for-profit Culinary, or "the other C.I.A.," as it is often called, is perhaps the nation's most influential training school for professional cooks and has ambitious plans to extend its sway. The institute, with an enrollment of 1,850 (23% female, about 12% minority) and a faculty of 100, has a roster of 22,000 alumni that includes such celebrity chefs as Debra Ponzek of New York City's Montrachet restaurant and Dean Fearing of the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas...
...During 1985 and '86 he simultaneously conducted a tense and frustrating series of arms-hostages negotiations with Iran and coordinated a supply line for the contras in Nicaragua. Like the ringleader of a vast, secret circus, North masterminded an elaborate network of boats and planes, along with not-for-profit corporations and Swiss bank accounts to help the U.S. sell weapons to Iran, as well as supply the contras with money and guns...
...debt has risen to $3.4 billion, and export revenues (primarily from bananas, shrimp and light manufacturing) are falling. Panama is not benefiting much from the country's famous waterway, which was transferred to joint U.S.Panamanian administration under the 1977 Panama Canal treaties. The Big Ditch, historically a not-for-profit concern, last year showed an operating loss of $4 million, reflecting a worldwide shipping slump. One of Ardito Barletta's first unpleasant chores will be a round of belt tightening prescribed by the International Monetary Fund. The measures include a removal of food subsidies, which will send prices...
Still pending is Dial's appeal for second-class, not-for-profit mailing rates, which could save it $380,000 annually...
...market, which was the Mayor's idea in the first place, is one of those Bicentennial Community events, not-for-profit but for-the-people. Physically, it's simply a strip of unused roadway cut off from traffic for the day. Peddlers pay $2 a day for a curbside space, pull in their Pinto wagons and draw out all manner of treasure and trash to sell to the public...