Word: pan
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...There is one major difference between the boy who was and the writer-director who is. He has now found a crew of similarly skewed comic co-conspirators and perfected an improvisational technique that permits him to explore - with the sweetest, deadest pan - that place where our visions of glory ought to die for lack of nourishment but somehow survive on the crumbs of hope that drop from the celebrity culture's groaning board...
...seemed like the rest of Europe was training harder while the Americans and Australians shared a beaming, brilliant spotlight after their news-making performances a year ago in the same pool at the Pan Pacific championships. As with each new wave of individuals, so too with a shift in swimming firepower between countries. In Sydney, some commentators were pointing to the rise of Europe as a swimming power; the Continent has long been a force in the pool. Four years ago, European nations won 11 gold and a total of 38 medals; this time Europe secured 14 gold, 36 medals...
McNitt said a major part of the renovations was making food preparation possible on a smaller scale, so that cooks have more control over what they are making. Instead of preparing large batches, cooks now make food for anywhere from six to 10 people, then put the pot, frying pan or French fry basket directly on the hotline so food is always fresh and less mass-produced...
...there is a limit to how much money private industry is willing to gamble on products that may or may not pan out. If a government kickback for research increases the amount of research being done, then it has value to the economy and society in ways that are hard to measure...
...appear clean. Shorter is resentful that, even when this system stumbles upon a cheater, hypocrisy rules at the end of the day. He says "it absolutely stinks" that Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor will compete in Sydney. The world-record holder tested positive for cocaine at last summer's Pan Am Games and was banned for two years by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. But in early August the federation, citing "exceptional circumstances" and a career with no previous violations, commuted the ban. Even federation senior vice president Arne Ljungqvist was appalled--"He should be suspended"--and threatened to resign...