Word: pork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...payback time, and Clinton probably longs for the days when Presidents could buy congressional votes with old-fashioned pork. Entitlements are the true Nightmare Before Christmas, especially since Clinton's Democratic predecessors put most of them in place. The Bryn Mawr summit brings into the open a potentially divisive closed-door debate within the Administration -- whether to support new limits on the government benefits that millions of middle-class Americans...
Favorite menu item at the Kong: Subgum Mandarin Pan-fried Noodles. Hold the pork. Scallion pancakes...
...runs one of Havana's new speakeasies. Home restaurants are legal, but as a university-trained engineer, Octavio is barred from private enterprise. His official job earns him 300 pesos a month, a good salary in Cuba, but that equals a mere $2.50, the cost of a pork sandwich and a bottle of Labatt's beer on his patio. "I have kids, and they need to eat. They want ice cream, things in the stores," says Octavio, "so I do this. I have to have dollars...
...sold some family antiques to foreigners -- also illegal -- to stock his giant freezer with pork, chicken and beef bought at the new dollar stores. Saturday nights his tables are full of "friends of friends" who can pay dollars for food they cannot find elsewhere. If his neighbors snitch, the government will confiscate everything. Wearing a white polo shirt, gold Seiko watch and Italian shoes, Octavio shrugs at the danger. "I will do what I must for my family," he says, "no matter what Fidel ((he makes the beard gesture with his fingers)) says...
...something to do in a long scene in which Kramer sits in the barber chair while the two Italians have an argument. One of the actors spontaneously reaches for Richards' lapels to emphasize a point. "Don't grab me," Richards snaps, out of character. "I'm not a pork chop!" It is not a joke...