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...Show your doughnut holes, girls!” (Cheerleading terminology defines “doughnut holes” as “those little circles your fingers make when you form a fist”. You have to turn them towards the front for optimum form.) We also learn “sidelines”, in which we gyrate and jump cutely while bellowing “Go Crimson, Go Crimson, Go!” I suppose it’s better than stunting, but I can’t do jumps and my arms hurt...
Doing so hasn't always been easy. As a relative small fry in the U.S. market, Gigante doesn't have the advantages that size confers on some competitors. The company employs three full-time product buyers who scour farmers' markets and Mexican grocery stores for the optimum mix of U.S. and Mexican brands. Yet like most small grocery chains, Gigante initially stocked the shelves of its U.S. stores with goods supplied by a wholesaling company that dealt with food manufacturers. Since then, growth has allowed for bigger orders at lower prices negotiated directly with manufacturers. (One hiccup along...
...nearly three dozen ships started to ferry men and equipment of the 4th Infantry Division from the U.S. to Turkey. Under the war plans, the division is supposed to attack Iraq from the north. Diverting the Turkey-bound ships to the Persian Gulf--probably to Kuwait--would delay the optimum start date of a war by a month. Both Turkish and Administration officials said at the end of last week that a broad basis for a deal had been reached...
Fortunately, nature has given us a handy rule of thumb. Many of the very chemicals that make foods good for us are the ones that give them color, turning blueberries blue, spinach green and carrots deep orange. For optimum health, scientists say, eat a rainbow of colors. Your plate should look like a box of Crayolas...
...chairman with bared teeth at these things, opened the hearing by cross-examining Greenspan on one particularly quotable passage in his remarks, a rhetorical question whether the Fed had "the capability to eliminate booms and busts in economic activity? Can fiscal and monetary policy acting at their optimum eliminate the business cycle, as some of the more optimistic followers of J.M. Keynes seemed to believe several decades...