Word: panning
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...Qadhafi - who was behind the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270, as well as the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco that killed three - was "hysterical" with fear that he'd be targeted by the U.S. for vengeance after the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, according to a newly declassified Sept. 20, 2001, cable from the U.S. Embassy in Egypt...
...next morning, a pixieish 37-year-old named Darcie Purcell (whose business card reads "Brand Manager--Mario Batali") led Batali into a conference room to see finished versions of new items in his cookware line for the first time. A $100 risotto pan weighing an astonishing 12 lbs. came out first. "Wow," Batali said proudly. "You're not gonna be lifting this up with one hand." But there was bad news: the kitchenware chain Sur La Table wouldn't be buying the pan--"too niche," apparently...
Batali's cookware has sold well since it was launched last year. The 2005 products were anchored around three cast-iron pieces--a 6-qt. pot, a grill press and a lasagna pan large enough to bathe an infant in. "It was the most successful launch of cast iron I've had in my career," says Marjorie Daugherty, the cookware buyer for Crate & Barrel. "We sold 6,000 pieces in the fall, and it was out for January and February." She also believes "Mario's are the best wooden tools on the market...
...pointed message for an underling to call her back. It was a theatrical gesture, but she didn't seem to be doing it for Batali, who was well out of earshot. "We love this product," Seeger told me emphatically. (In the end, Sur La Table did order the risotto pan for its stores this year...
...dozens of languages.The group’s co-president, Arjun Vasan ’07, said that South Asian students used to be members of an even broader cross-ethnic coalition of Asians.But in 1986, South Asian students moved to “shoot off” from the pan-Asian group and concentrate on a narrower geographic base, Vasan said.“South Asia, it’s a very complex region of the world, and I think lumping it with the rest of Asia just doesn’t give it justice in that sense...