Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spells HIT. Stir Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have two films in the year's top 20. And so it goes and grows. His first monologue film, Richard Pryor Live in Concert-the one recorded in Long Beach in 1978-surprised...
...Henry Blackburn of the University of Minnesota Medical School: "Scientists have a social obligation to advocate cutting down on salt as a low-risk way of producing a more healthy population." Americans in general are becoming highly conscious of dangers that may lurk in their food. Saccharin, nitrates, sugar, cyclamates have all come under suspicion. Few are as committed on the salt issue as Food Columnist Craig Claiborne, who turned from salt addict to antisalt agitator after his own hypertension was detected. When it comes to the demon crystal, Claiborne goes straight to the point. Says he: "They should label...
...compensate, those that give special zest to foods, are beyond count. I prefer fresh herbs like parsley, tarragon, finely chopped garlic and fresh grated horseradish; spices Like curry and chili powders, powdered mustard (made into a paste with water), hot pepper flakes, a generous grinding of black pepper and sugar. Soy sauce, incidentally, is loaded with sodium, even a low-sodium one you can buy in a health food store...
After leaving his job as Harvard treasurer he became president of the Soledad Sugar Co.. which operated a manufacturing plant and owned 30,000 acres of land in Cuba...
...inadequacies of the President's approach stem from his failure to recognize the historical roots of the Caribbean basin's economic distress. The nations of Central America and the West Indies are suffering from a legacy of colonial exploitation that has left most dependent on a single crop--sugar--which they compete against each other to sell to the U.S. These nations lack any substantial industrial infrastructure and are net importers of food because so much of their land is either eroded or under export crops...