Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...energy boom of the late 1970s and early '80s provided Silverado with plenty of opportunities for long-shot ventures with big returns. "It was a real Western boom that made the gold and silver days look pale by comparison," remembers Jim Thomas, executive director of Colorado's Independent Bankers Association. "We attracted all the con men, promoters, hucksters and sleaze artists in sight...
Nadja Gould sits in her peaceful blue office at University Health Services, her trademark silver bun piled high on her head...
...ethnically diverse electorate to become New York's first black mayor by a narrow margin. Dinkins has named more minorities to top-level staff positions than any mayor before him and has drawn on a national pool of talent to fill posts in his administration. With little fanfare, the silver-haired insider fashioned a slash-and-tax $28 billion budget that met with grudging approval from unions and business leaders alike...
...modern version of the great old war-horse cookbooks like The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and Joy of Cooking. It is called The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins (Workman; $29.95). These are the people who founded New York City's swell little gourmet-food store the Silver Palate and then produced one of the pioneer nouvelle American cookbooks. At 849 pages, The New Basics describes and prescribes just about everything one does in the kitchen...
...calf is tiny -- only about 12 1/2 cm (5 in.) long -- and it is made of bronze, and possibly lead and silver as well, rather than gold. It may have been burnished to a golden color, says Stager. The calf was probably displayed emerging from the vessel in which it was discovered. He believes the idol was worshiped not for its inherent holiness but because it was associated with the Canaanite deity El, father of the gods, or his son Baal, god of storms...