Word: shells
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started in Raffles Courtyard, next to the legendary Long Bar. The live crab is weighed in front of the customer and anything less than 2.2 lbs. (1 kg) is deemed more shell than meat. The exact sauce recipe is a closely guarded secret, but I noted plenty of garlic, ginger, honey, vinegar and chopped fresh red chili added to a rich tomato sauce - a superb balance of sweet and sour...
...next stop was No Signboard on the seafront at Esplanade Arts Centre. A stylish yet modest restaurant, it was recommended by countless food-savvy Singaporeans for both the crab and the exemplary service. Seeing me ponder how best to attack the shell, a waiter discreetly slid on his plastic gloves and began deftly dissecting. The huge claws had sweet moist meat, and the sauce was a rich melding of butter, spring onion, garlic, oyster sauce and black pepper...
...That's good news for shareholders in the likes of BP and Shell. But results like these can rankle consumers caught up in a cooling economy as gas prices at the pump steadily rise. Little wonder that results like these aren't trumpeted these days, but rather carefully explained. Record profit announcements from major energy firms are nothing new; those inflated oil prices have triggered a string of them in recent months. But the slowdown currently underway in the U.K., for instance, "puts a bigger onus on these companies to explain lucidly what exactly that means," says Simon Webley, research...
...Sure enough, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer limited himself to calling the results a "competitive set of earnings." And he was quick to point out that "Shell has the largest capital spending program in our industry today, to ... play our part in ensuring that energy markets remain well supplied." That slight air of defensiveness is easy to understand. Where corporate profits are concerned, "everybody thinks it goes into the pockets of senior people," says Webley. "That is far from the case." The suggestion is that Shell and BP's profits will be plowed back into exploration...
...your average Harvard student traded spring break sun-worshipping for response papers and problem sets under the dreary early-April skies of Cambridge, the 14 young women of The Harvard Crimson Dance Team (CDT) fouetted their way to a fifth-place national finish in a band shell overlooking Daytona Beach. Performing to a Hollywood-themed medley—including Madonna’s “Hollywood,” Missy Elliott’s “Shake Your Pom Pom,” and Prima J’s “Rock Star?...