Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opened this fall; he has exported his French-Asian marvel, Vong, to London and Hong Kong. Both men have no qualms about lending their name. Vongerichten sells condiments through Williams-Sonoma, and Ducasse has just brought out a champagne label and a line of products ranging from $25 olive oil to $28,000 stoves. Ducasse dreams of cracking the New York market, and though he speaks virtually no English, he and top Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, a good friend, fantasize about doing road tours--"the way Bob Dylan and Van Morrison would go on a tour," explains Trotter...
...opportunity was born of a disaster, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. After Exxon agreed to pay a $1 billion settlement, environmentalists had a great idea: Why not have the U.S. and Alaska governments use the funds to buy development rights to some of the 44 million acres of land held by native Alaskans? Then tracts could be set aside as protected forest. Native Alaskans could invest the proceeds, and forests would be saved for hunting, fishing and tourism. But the natives would have to forgo income from logging. Advocates of the plan needed a native Alaskan to help sell...
Journalists aren't the only ones who wonder about the who, what, where, when and why of a story. TIME readers do too, and about 3,000 of them write every year with some variation on the five ws: "What information do you have on the effects of oil spills on the environment?" "Where can my wife get treatment with the new anticancer drug Herceptin [TIME, Oct. 5]?" "Who's been on your cover the most times?" (Richard Nixon...
...reader remembered that "TIME once described a TV character from the '70s as 'a human oil slick.' Who was that character?" The Fonz? Vinnie Barbarino? Nope. The slickster was J.R. Ewing of Dallas, as depicted in a 1980 cover story. Another recalled a photograph in TIME of two Peruvian surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grana Reyes and Esteban Rocca. "The content of the story," said the reader, "was about a modern-day brain operation using ancient tools from the Mayans." Did we run that? Yes, indeed...
...also supported a policy of annual pollution prevention review for Tosco, a large, independent oil refiner and marketer of petroleum...