Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Mediterranean and Pacific Rim touches enhance Miami's nouvelle cuisine, one ingredient that gives it such a distinctive lift is not a food at all, but sticky 90-degree heat and 90% humidity. To retain their allure under those sultry conditions, offerings must be satisfying but light and refreshing. "The flavors must make sense to a body in this heat," says Susser. Rather than being coated with flour, fish is citrus-crusted or dusted with crushed pistachios. Fruits lighten up even familiar entrees: Susser offers a sublime Key lime pasta...
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was in no mood to defend the ban, calling it "an old chestnut" that he inherited from previous Administrations. But he also said he would make no move to overturn it. When asked how he could retain a high-ranking aide who is allegedly gay while forcing the dismissal of many homosexuals from the uniformed services, Cheney invoked a confusing double standard. Gays, he explained, could serve in civilian jobs, where they would not necessarily pose a security risk. Yet a closet homosexual with access to & classified information would surely be more vulnerable to blackmail than...
...they can afford to remain on the sidelines of this new Europe. Does neutrality still make sense as the risk of war in Europe recedes and the vision of a confederation stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals advances? Can Switzerland hope someday to join the E.C. and still retain its highly decentralized system of direct democracy...
...momentum confronts Switzerland with an immensely difficult choice: to join, thereby yielding some power to Brussels, and benefit directly from the dynamism of the new Europe, or to stay out and retain its jealously guarded independence. A third option involves the talks now under way with Brussels to create an economic area in which goods, services, capital and labor would flow freely, thereby according Switzerland many of the benefits of E.C. membership but without a loss of sovereignty. The price of that compromise is that Switzerland would not have a strong voice at the table where decisions affecting its future...
...conventional bomb could have spread a deadly agent across the countryside, killing millions. As a result, Iraq's biological stocks are largely intact, and a U.S. attack poses the same risks that it did during the war. Unless Saddam discloses the whereabouts of his entire arsenal, Iraq will retain at least some of its biological weapons...