Word: sittings
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Wielding considerably more authority than the city council, the board votes on the budget and controls such matters as zoning, municipal contracts, and water and sewer rates. Three elected officials (the mayor, comptroller and city-council president) and the president of each of the city's five boroughs sit on the panel. But the boroughs have widely varying populations. The member representing Staten Island's 377,600 residents has the same voting power as the one representing the 2,309,600 people of Brooklyn, the most populous borough...
...easy for Fred at Georgetown, but he was determined to make it. "If you come into a school, you may not be on an academic par with the general population of the school, but if you as an individual can sit there and learn something and better yourself, that's an education," he says. Stroking the lapel of a well-cut gray suit, Fred reflects on his rise from the ghetto to the good life. "I always ask my mother, 'If I hadn't played basketball, what would have happened?' " he says. "Ninety percent of the people I grew...
...live in the occupied territories but do not belong to the P.L.O. Much to Shamir's displeasure, Secretary of State James Baker declared last week that it would be a "major mistake" to rule out direct Israeli-P.L.O. negotiations in the likely event that no Palestinian leader would sit down with the Israelis without the approval of the P.L.O...
Modern-day eating habits make it hard to be careful. Many Americans rely on restaurant or supermarket salad bars -- places where the food is left to sit for many hours and handled by many people, often in slovenly fashion. Notes dietitian Bettye Nowlin of the American Dietetic Association: "I've seen people at take-out stores who don't seem to have a problem sneezing on food and then offering...
...chicken. Poultry should not be pink near the bone. Many cooks are impatient, particularly when it comes to the microwave. Warns Douglas Archer, head of the microbiology division of the FDA's Office of Nutrition and Food Sciences: "If you're told to cook something and let it sit for two minutes, there's a good reason. You're letting the heat from inside the food come out in the form of steam and finish the cooking." Once food is prepared, it should be eaten within an hour or refrigerated. Among the most dangerous foods to leave out are those...