Word: sniff
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When George W. Bush wanted to run a sniff test for his audacious tax-cut program, which includes eliminating the levy on corporate dividends, he dispatched his new economics chief, Stephen Friedman, to New York City to wave it under the noses of such bankers as UBS America chairman Donald Marron and brokerage legend Muriel Siebert. Friedman is a polished pinstriper, a former Goldman Sachs chairman with the kind of Street cred the Administration lacked before purging its economic team last month. In four meetings, Friedman did as much listening as talking, knowing enough not to insult his former brethren...
...decompose soon enough, don't worry." Descending, he springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. This is prized nuoc mam, fermented for more than a year. Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips-and gives a satisfied smile...
Could chocolate truffles be the sweet treat du jour? According to Jordan Covell, president of Neuhaus Chocolate, a Belgian chocolate company whose delicacies are carried at boutiques in the U.S., truffles--the chocolate kind, not the fungus that pigs love to sniff out--are the must-have cocoa indulgence. "This season our truffle sales have doubled," says Covell. Event producer Francesca Abbracciamento, of Francesca Events, whose clients include Bill Clinton and Conan O'Brien, says, "Truffles have replaced the chocolate-dipped strawberry as the quintessential, elegant petit four." The treat is even being adapted for the health conscious. Veganstore.com...
...Gulf War. U.S. and Israeli officials tell TIME that Israeli special forces have been operating inside Iraq's western desert on reconnaissance and training missions, surveying 30,000 sq. mi. for places where Iraq might have hidden the missiles and launchers it kept after the Gulf War. "You sniff around in the western desert," says a U.S. official, "and try to get an idea about those hardened concrete bunkers that Saddam has created to put his Scuds in." In the past few years, members of an Israeli special-forces unit called Shaldag, Hebrew for "Kingfisher," have taken part...
...male panel of judges get past their initial skepticism and hit the mead. When Dodd pours three glasses of Fateful Fluids, the judges first stare and sniff. “That’s...different,” Slesar says, shaking and smelling the mead. “I’m scared. I’m very scared,” he confesses. After sampling the beverage, Meyers suggests boiling the mead next time. “That would give you a slightly clearer product in the long run,” he tells Dodd. “It?...