Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typical Nemy column samples the opinions of rich, famous and beautiful (in a pinch, someone with any two of the foregoing will do) on a truly insignificant subject. Besides being merely trivial, the matter must be one that would come up only in the course of expending large amounts of money. Dishwashing, hamburgers, or any of the other middle-class institutions that make New York great are about as likely to appear in the column as confessions that some celeb beats her children...
...that we can blame him for trying While Charles and Diana reinvented parenthood to the delight of millions back home, the middle scion of the House of Windsor was shivering in the Falklands, living proof (supposedly) that royalty really can be useful in a pinch. The local tabloids weren't being particularly attentive either. Although the British turned out in the thousands to welcome home the Carrier Invincible (Andrew's station), the press has lavished considerably more attention on the newest member of the royal family, little William. And the handsome Andrew, who enjoys dropping in unexpectedly at racy London...
...while his bullhorn days have subsided, he remains Massachusetts Hall's day-to-day problem solver. His new vice-presidential responsibility of overseeing Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the controversial agency whose management of University property holdings has drawn flak from tenants in recent years, is only his most recent pinch-hitting duty...
...quarter of America's 2.4 million farmers are substantially in debt, and a fair share of them are in serious trouble. In the first ten months of the current fiscal year, there were nearly 7,000 farm failures. Even many secure and usually prosperous farmers are feeling the pinch. "You've heard farmers bitching all your life," says Chappel Sides, 53, a cotton, soybean and peanut farmer near Coffeeville, Miss. "But when an above-average farmer makes an above-average crop and loses a pile of money, you know something's wrong. We're just right...
...vinegar and oil, the oil and vinegar of the stars). Newman, a man for all seasonings who is not otherwise much of a culinary performer, has been brewing the au naturel dressing in his Connecticut cave for years and giving the bottles away as Christmas gifts. With a pinch of immodesty, he says he became "a prisoner of my own excellence." With the help of his chum A.E. Hotchner, 62, whose concoctions are usually literary (Papa Heming way), the actor is marketing the dressing in supermarkets around the country. The bottle, adorned with Newman's visage and the glint...