Word: salt
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...division of H.J. Heinz, had conducted surveys that revealed that busy Japanese working women had a hunger for easily prepared frozen foods. The company also showed a willingness to change its ingredients in order to please its new customers. The frozen fries in Tokyo are made with less salt than those sold in the U.S. Reason: the Japanese prefer to sprinkle the seasoning themselves. After only one year of business, Ore-Ida now claims 11% of the $40 million market...
...world prominence with 15 national and international tours, 850 weekly radio concerts for the CBS network's Music and the Spoken Word, 50 record albums that totaled 4 million in sales, and even a hit single (the chorus's 1959 recording of Battle Hymn of the Republic); in Salt Lake City...
...control agreements. "Soviet noncompliance," President Reagan stated in a report submitted to Congress, "has made verification and compliance the pacing elements of arms control today." According to the report, Moscow violated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty by building a huge radar system in central Siberia, and the 1979 SALT accords limiting each side to one new ICBM by testing and deploying the SS-25 mobile missile. The Soviets argue that the radar station will be used for tracking satellites, not enemy missiles, and that the SS-25 is merely a modernized version of the old SS-12. Pentagon hardliners...
...Administration did say that for its part the U.S. would continue to observe arms-control measures like the never-ratified SALT II treaty, which would have expired Dec. 31. Nonetheless, until the two sides can agree on some means of verifying compliance with current accords, they may have difficulty reaching new ones. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Nancy Traver/Moscow
...Kremlin is poised to do precisely that on short notice, but it is holding itself in check under the agreements reached during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the '70s. Even though SALT II of 1979 was never formally ratified, and expired last month, the two sides have agreed to observe its terms while Kampelman and Karpov try to come up with a new accord in Geneva. However, that open-ended arrangement is in jeopardy. American hawks, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, accuse the Soviets of violating SALT II; in a private report to the President that was leaked last...