Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kleenex box is to your left. The windows are curtained. The chair is comfortable. You can't see the clock, but as usual it's set five minutes ahead, on the hour...
...overall interest in finer foods." Joseph Baum, co-owner of New York City's Rainbow Room and Aurora restaurants, agrees. "Flavor is in again, and game is full of flavor," he says. "It's evocative of the past, of tradition. It's romantic." This season Aurora has set up a special game menu for its dinner guests. Last week's offerings included medallions of venison with dried fruit, saddle of hare with black- and white-peppercorn sauce and roasted Scottish grouse...
...stiff prison term once again drew attention to the glaring inequalities that often characterize sentencing decisions in the U.S. Despite efforts at reform, much of the nation's criminal sentencing system is still based on an idiosyncratic set of decisions made by crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that...
...pursued in the West as if they were not merely bad, but evil. Cattlemen lost entire herds to harsh winters, then spent enormous, irrationally large sums of money taking vengeance on wolves. Barry Lopez, in his haunting book Of Wolves and Men, tells of wolves drenched with gasoline and set afire, wolves pulled apart by horses. You can't dismember an April blizzard...
...wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries, are likely to be more an annoyance than a danger to farmers. In northern Minnesota, where some 1,200 wolves forage in a cattle-ranch and sheep-farm area, the highest annual payoff by a Government program set up to compensate stockmen for wolf kills has been a modest $21,000. (Problem wolves there are killed by federal hunters, as would be true around Yellowstone.) There have been no documented cases in modern times of wolves attacking people in the U.S. But it is taken as a home truth...