Word: rye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticipating the difficulties. "We were promised that we could do it all and we would be as successful as men," says Carolyn Lo Galbo Goodfriend, 39, a mother of a five-year-old, who manages more than $300 million worth of accounts for Kraft General Foods in Rye Brook, N.Y. "But the trade-offs and sacrifices a woman has to make are far greater than a man's." Lo Galbo once met Steinem at an awards dinner and demanded to know, "Why didn't you tell us that it was going to be like this?" The matriarch of Ms. magazine...
Moreover, Parker's Marlowe can seem like an anachronism in search of a time frame. He drinks rye, smokes Camels and charges only $100 a day plus expenses. But there are contemporary touches. Women wear tank tops and police uniforms, and pornography has gone public...
Bloomingdale's takes pride in introducing chic fashions to trend-hungry New Yorkers, so it seemed perfectly appropriate that the department store was the first in town to sell the latest product of perestroika: imported Soviet rye bread, hot off the flight from Moscow. Bloomingdale's last week was selling the two-pound loaves (price: $6) at the rate of 30 an hour...
...types were offered: Rjanog, a sour rye, and Borodinsky, a sweeter bread - flavored with coriander. The so-called peace bread was also being offered to customers at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Russian Tea Room. U.S. entrepreneur Fred Kayden arranged the imports after 7 1/2 months of negotiations with Soviet officials and a "perestroika entrepreneur" in Moscow. But Kayden may not have a black-bread monopoly for long. Zaro's Bread Basket, a New York City bakery chain, plans to start selling imported Soviet bread for $5 a loaf. Would Muscovites pay that kind of price for Wonder...
...books that were read from had been banned for a wide range of reasons. Among the books was J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which was banned for obscene language as late...