Word: swallower
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...staggering loss to the team. "You're looking at tough sacrifices," says Jack Fishman of layoffs, a spokesperson for the San Antonio Symphony. Its operating budget suffered a five-year setback, from a $6.6 million budget to $5.1 million. The solution? The symphony's 72 musicians agreed to swallow...
Initial voyages into space introduced questions scientists had never before considered. Could an astronaut swallow food in zero gravity? Would he choke? Would crumbs float into the shuttle's instruments and break something? To keep things simple, astronauts on the Project Mercury and Gemini missions ate pureed foods squeezed out of tubes. "It was like serving them baby food in a toothpaste container," explains Vickie Kloeris, NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory manager. John Glenn was the first person to eat in space; in 1962 he ingested applesauce and reported relatively easy digestion...
...east from Monrovia, past Firestone, the U.S. rubber giant's worker town, past Smell-No-Taste, a town known in years past for the fine cooking aromas that would waft in from a nearby expatriate housing colony, down a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of road whose potholes can swallow a small car, and you'll come to Buchanan. When Joel Strickland, 47, first visited Liberia three years ago to scout for opportunities, he was a partner in a Toronto hedge fund. In Buchanan, Strickland was struck by the number of moribund rubber plantations. Untended during the war or destroyed...
...that of the Intercontinental West Lake, tel: (84-4) 6270 8888. The hotel has three smart restaurants - a French bistro, an Italian restaurant and one that serves Vietnamese-Chinese cuisine - as well as a bar set on its own island in the lake. Only the prices are hard to swallow...
...least - the rudderless efforts to unseat the Prime Minister. In light of Labour's collapse in the Euro poll, wavering MPs were probably spooked by the prospect of a general election. (Imposing a second successive unelected P.M., the assumption goes, would be one too many for the electorate to swallow, making a national poll inevitable.) Rebellion was stymied, too, by a failure of the disgruntled to unite behind a policy agenda or a credible successor. When Alan Johnson and Miliband - the two leading contenders for the role - took plum jobs in Brown's reshuffled cabinet last week, the likelihood...