Word: salamis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically in some cases, to duplicate the irregularities of hand weaving. Insurance companies offer a variety of policies that would not have been possible before the arrival of computers. Even salami is cut precisely with equipment guided by microprocessors...
...published early next year. The book, she says, will take "a different angle" from her definitive Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants. She is also collaborating with Comedian Alan King on a compendium of memoirs, recipes and restaurant anecdotes called Is Salami-and-Eggs Better Than Sex? The answer to that curious question will be available next November, the book's publication date...
This year, managers are experimenting with an extensive deli line, including cheese, salami, roast beef and turkey...
...coming, like a wave out at sea," Dan Rather says, a new attack on the "media elite." Then, with a carefree disregard for consistency of metaphor, he describes such criticism as "the old salami in a new package." Journalists like Rather are always being asked by unsympathetic critics, "Who elected you?" The most plausible answer is that journalists are first appointed by their employers, then get confirmed by the public insofar as they and their employers are regarded as accurate, fair and trustworthy. As the network with the most watched news program on TV, CBS can consider itself elected under...
...since the Reagan Administration was so committed to the talks. Second, Prime Minister Begin's government would periodically apply heavy military pressure on P.L.O. positions in West Beirut in order to remind the Palestinian leaders that their only choice was to leave Lebanon. Israeli officials declared that these "salami-style" maneuvers of slicing away at the Palestinian redoubt in West Beirut would be conducted only in response to P.L.O. ceasefire violations. But there were bound to be violations, as the Israelis well knew, because the P.L.O. is made up of so many factions, often at odds with one another...