Word: sweetener
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...also floated a compromise in which Japan would get some of the islands, while Russia would keep the larger two of Kunashir and Iturup, where most Russians live. Tokyo has rejected the idea, and Yeltsin, fearful of risking the wrath of his Moscow rivals, has been unable to sweeten the deal further. Last week he canceled a trip to Tokyo rather than confront the issue...
...unpaid wages and benefits, the government has had to water down its tough fiscal policy and pump more money into circulation. Gaidar expects the amount of cash coming off government presses to increase fivefold by August, much of it in new 1,000- and 5,000-ruble notes. To sweeten the public mood on a visit to Siberia last month, Yeltsin ordered that a second plane accompany him loaded with 500 million rubles in back...
...Sonoma County, Calif., just west of -- you guessed it -- the Russian River. Gary Walters, chief usher at the White House, serving as First Wine Taster, made the selection. "The Soviets enjoy a little more sugar in their sparkling wines," says Walters. So the White House asked the winery to sweeten three cases of its Iron Horse 1987 Brut ($21). This was Iron Horse's third summit: it was served in Geneva in 1985, when Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev first met, and in 1987 in Washington...
...understand this talk of killing," counters biologist Anna Stanczkowska-Piotrowska of Poland's Agricultural-Pedagogical University. The zebra mussel, she points out, is not without virtues. Its byssuses extrude an adhesive that may have commercial value. Its appetite for foul-smelling algae can markedly sweeten the taste of drinking water. Perhaps most admirable of all, the zebra mussel has performed an act of public service by dramatizing the threat posed by tiny organisms that hitch rides around the world. Both the U.S. and Canada are moving to restrict the discharge of ballast water into the Great Lakes, a measure...
...House official replied, "expanded waistlines." When Bush gave his nationwide speech, the budget took a backseat to the gulf. Repeating his call for a cut in the capital-gains tax, the President promised not to tinker with tax rates. Bush made no concessions, but did call on Congress to sweeten the budget deal with $30 billion in tax breaks over five years...