Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocktail aspects of the job. A bachelor, he spends long hours entertaining U.N. diplomats in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers and visiting their delegations around Manhattan. "I believe that in an environment like the U.N.," he says, "you get a lot more with sugar than you do with salt...
...Sand," says his colleague Komuro, "can turn into an accessory"--and he likes challenges in his recreation as well as his vocation. On a trip last year to the Kutch desert in the Indian state of Gujarat, his car broke down in the middle of a bridge spanning a salt sea. While friends fought off fantasies of sunstroke, dehydration and death in the wilderness, Miyake gazed at the weird water patterns below him, exclaiming, "This is really special." The travelers were eventually rescued and transported to a remote village, where they shared a room with a number of nimble rats...
...museum, in a sense, closes a circle begun 330 years ago. The house built by Aubert de Fontenay, royal collector of the salt tax, now contains a collection assembled by 20th century taxes. The artist would have relished the irony. Said the influential Le Monde: "One knows that Picasso is in his place in the noble building from the time of Louis XIV. He is home...
...dietary guidelines, issued jointly by the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, are virtually identical to those offered five years ago. They urge eaters to reduce consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol and to limit intake of sugar and salt. Nutritionists and consumer groups applauded the reiteration, since the meat, dairy and sugar industries had been pushing for more relaxed standards. The recommendations stop short, however, of advocating a low-fat, high-fiber diet to protect against colon cancer, a regimen that has been endorsed by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. The new guidelines...
...control plan. It could prove to be the most promising scheme ever put forward by the Soviets. Indeed, if the details still to come support the advance billing--and if the Reagan Administration decides to engage itself--the proposal could produce the most constructive negotiations since 1979, when the SALT II treaty was concluded...