Word: simmers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite reports that Keynes is dead and that Jimmy Carter cannot turn the economic stove higher than simmer, those future business executives across the river continue to reap the rewards of the increasing corporate demand for elite technocrats. The median starting salary of last June's Harvard Business School graduates was $22,000, ten per cent higher than the Class of '76, according to a report recently released by the Office of Career Development...
...Milwaukee, Boston, New York and other cities, and air-conditioner salesmen could scarcely keep up with demand. Newspaper-headline writers warmed to the occasion. The New York Daily News ran, AT 102°, WE'RE A BAKED APPLE, and the Boston Globe, ON THE 5TH DAY OF SIMMER...
...fighters and tacticians, might be able to regroup and eventually push back the Peruvians. An armed conflict, if it did occur, would not only take a bloody toll of the participants but could also tempt other countries on the continent into similar action. Potentially volatile territorial disputes, for example, simmer between Venezuela and both Guyana and Colombia, and also between Peru and Ecuador...
SOUTH. Carter's homeboy status and religiosity far outweigh any gaffes and organizational disputes everywhere except in Virginia and Texas. In both, Ford seems to be moving up. Texas Democrats took Carter's Playboy confession of mental lechery in stride, but still simmer over his linkage of Native Son Lyndon Johnson with Richard Nixon in "lying, cheating and distorting the truth." Even so, Lady Bird Johnson is still a member of Carter's Texas steering committee. Carter has also lost some support in Mississippi, but Florida seems safely in his camp, and he seems overwhelmingly ahead...
...sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...