Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East-West relations to, yes, jelly beans. Seemingly impressed to learn that the beans in the two jars that Reagan keeps constantly available come in 35 flavors, the Prime Minister daintily dipped in. "They might not be good for the teeth," she mused, "but they will be good for sugar consumption in Britain." On more substantive matters, she applauded Reagan's caution in approaching any summit, urging the President to study Brezhnev's statement carefully "both for what it adds up to and what it does not add up to," in the words of one aide...
Meanwhile, the minuscule economic elite of El Salvador is doing very well, living off the export of coffee, sugar cane, and cotton. Two per cent of the country owns over 60 per cent of the farmland, and 5 per cent of the people receive 50 per cent of the income. A corporation president in El Salvador recently told the truth: "It is a class war," he said. It does not take Fidel Castro to tell people they are being repressed, starved, taken away in the middle of the night, and shot down in the streets. A revolution was coming...
Genus jelly bean is a descendant of Turkish delight, a gelatinous confection dating from biblical times, and a French technique called panning, in which the soft centers are hard-coated with syrup and sugar; the process takes up to two weeks. Goelitz plants in California and Chicago are now on six-day weeks; new orders take two months or more. Unless you drop in at the Oval Office...
Except at Easter, when they cling glutinously to countless baskets of green plastic grass, jelly beans have never ranked high in the American sweet-tooth sweepstakes. Now, with Ronald Reagan in the White House, they seem fated to achieve the luster that the praline of sugar and nuts enjoyed in the court of France's Louis XIV.* Jelly bean consumption is jumping, not only in the capital but throughout the rest of the country as well...
Nobody can use the Pope," said Bishop Antonio Fortich in the Philippine province of Negros Occidental last week. "Where a crisis exists, that's where the Holy Father should go." Nonetheless, a sugar-coated curtain seemed to be descending over the forthcoming visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines. Originally, the Pontiff planned to tour some of the more impoverished sections of the country. Yet President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda are desperately trying to keep the papal visit as sanitary as possible; some Philippine bishops had anticipated just such an attempt last year and wrote...