Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many years in Japan, makes a fine guide to that country's methods of enhancing the flavor of seafood without obliterating it. She explains as well the techniques of frying, poaching, grilling and cutting raw fish for the right textural contrasts and warns about pollutants and parasites. Fried soft-shell crabs in a spicy sauce, cold poached tilefish with mustard-miso sauce and fiddlehead ferns, and a careful, simple tempura recipe are among the enticements...
...President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering trade and budget deficits. As the slide started, Bush hastily convened a seaside press conference to reassure nervous markets. With Atlantic waves crashing behind him, he allowed that his new burdens made him feel a bit "shell shocked," adding, "The problems are tremendous...
When the U.S. stock market crashed a year ago, few investors were more shell- shocked than speculators who had bet on potential takeover stocks. Even by the sobering standards of Black Monday, their losses were devastating, and soon after the market collapse, as the takeover stage lay nearly deserted, investors began wondering whether the curtain had fallen on the best show in town...
...will have spent nearly $70 million each. Most of that money comes from public funds, according to the rules set up by the reform laws. Congressional candidates, by contrast, receive no public money and tend to be heavily dependent on business donations. This year's victorious Senate candidates will shell out, on average, more than $3 million, up from $1.2 million in 1978. A House seat will cost about $360,000, compared with $130,000 ten years...
Schrorr twice beat freshman Kio Lippitt in the hole to put MIT ahead, 2-1, just two minutes into the game. Max Ochoa's three goals and Schrorr's third tally left the shell-shocked Crimson trailing by six goals. After one period, MIT already had two players with hat tricks and the Crimson had barely threatened Engineer goalie Paul Wysocki...