Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass the chips." Time was when that request led to a predictable result: a crackling treat of smooth, fragile, bitingly salty potato chips. No longer. Now staggering possibilities abound: chips sliced from white or sweet potatoes that could be thick or thin, ridged or smooth, and with or without salt and preservatives. They might be natural in flavor or seasoned with Cajun, Italian or barbecue spices, vinegar, jalapeno peppers, cheese alone or with bacon, sour cream (or yogurt) with onion (or chives). There is also a choice of half a dozen or so oils for frying, which can be done...
...operated in Leominster, Mass., since 1908. "People got tired of standard white, and now when you walk down the supermarket aisle, you'll find wheat, oat berry, cracked wheat and more. It's the same with chips." Though they profess an interest in foods that are low in salt and calories, Americans last year spent an estimated $3.3 billion dollars (an increase of 75% since 1980) on deep- fried chips, generally strewn with salt. The market is dominated by Pepsico's Frito-Lay, Borden's Wise and Procter & Gamble's Pringle's, but around the country the real aficionados prize...
...below ground, in a salt mine under Lake Erie, in the Kamioka lead and zinc mine in Japan, in the Mont Blanc Tunnel linking Italy and France, and in another tunnel under Mount Elbrus in the Soviet Union, scientists carefully examined data from computer printouts. They were hoping that some of the ethereal particles called neutrinos, predicted by theory to be produced during a supernova, had penetrated the earth, leaving their trail in huge liquid- filled neutrino detectors. Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, of the University of Texas in Austin, summarized the activity while addressing a hastily convened meeting of astronomers...
...dollar high-tech defense contracts SDI will bring them; arms-controllers such as Paul Nitze want a billion dollar bargaining chip; and right-wingers led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle see it as a billion dollar way to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and jettison the SALT agreements, and sabotage arms control. A useless Star Wars, they conclude, should be abandoned sooner rather than later...
...more balanced tone reemerges in the final chapter. The best hope for improvement in Soviet-American relations, the authors write, lies in a reaffirmation of the SALT agreements limiting offensive and defensive weapons systems. But the U.S.'s relationship with the Soviet Union will never be friendly so long as the men in the Kremlin define security in terms of domestic and international coercion. Genuinely cordial Soviet-American relations rest on the unlikely assumption that Mikhail Gorbachev wants to liberalize the Eastern bloc and the even more remote possibility that the General Secretary can liberalize the Eastern bloc...