Word: peanut
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...strenuous activity endemic to a Dead concert--dancing and the intake of substances both legal and illegal--tends to induce a huge collective hunger. The U.C., if equipped properly, could meet and profit from this demand for food. And Dead-heads' tastes are simple. They only desire plenty of peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, bagels with cream cheese, and lots of orange juice; they're here to listen, not to eat. With a jumbo-sized trip to the supermarket and a small amount of preparation, the U.C. could enlarge its coffers substantially and alliviate a massive case of the munchies...
Batash says her persona; favorite is the beef sattee. "The peanut sauce is key," she says...
...they don't. In the eyes of a nervous world, continuity is nearly an absolute virtue. But it is not a particularly American one. The razzle-dazzle of U.S. politics has a way of lifting from obscurity the most unlikely characters, usually by way of some provincial statehouse. A peanut farmer? A movie actor? The Governor of what? Where's that? No wonder that if there were a global electoral college, a sitting President would be virtually guaranteed re- election. Otherwise, the candidate with more foreign policy experience has the edge...
...return to the negotiating table, Washington enjoys the upper hand. "On this case the U.S. is right," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade specialist at the Brookings Institution in Washington, voicing a widely held judgment among economists. Still, no one can deny that the U.S. zealously protects its domestic sugar, peanut and tobacco industries, among others. U.S. farmers retain considerable political power themselves: one of their lobbies reportedly twice foiled a GATT deal just as the two sides had come close to an agreement...
...comfy lyrics sold 7 million copies of albums and videotapes during the early 1980s and transformed children's music from a backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae and from country to cabaret, have picked up on Raffi's riff...