Word: sweeter
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...Sweeter than retirement, certainly, which hasn't provided Iacocca an arena commensurate with his status as a national hero. It is all very well to start up a business that sells olive-oil spread or to promote gambling casinos on Indian reservations--two of his recent pursuits--but it doesn't compare with having the President return your calls. In September he filed for divorce from his third wife. She later countersued, challenging their prenuptial agreement and accusing him of hiring detectives to spy on her in their home in Beverly Hills, a charge he denies...
Kellogg's lobbyists argue that Raisin Bran doesn't have too much added sugar. Rather, it is sweeter because of sugar that occurs naturally in dried fruit. Dried fruit, they add, is very nutritious. Kellogg even joined forces with Sun-Maid, the California raisin producer, to press for an end to the sugar limit. The debate got so intense that at one meeting in 1991 Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan and Kellogg chairman Arnold Langbo started shouting and pounding the table. (Kellogg denies the meeting got that heated...
...totality, the visit is a time trip to a prettier New York and a sweeter America. "When I was little, I used to come with my grandmother," says Nancy Murray of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, of her annual trip to Radio City. "I loved it; the show always gave me the Christmas spirit. It still does. And when my son is old enough, I hope he will come with his grandmother...
...producers were drooling in their steins at the prospect of Texas Representative Bill Archer's taking charge of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws for the petroleum industry. Barry Williamson, a Texas Republican official at the barbeque, exulted that since last Tuesday, "the air smells sweeter and the sky is bluer...
...Even sweeter was Mandela's profuse -- and these days, rare -- praise for the U.S. Chief Executive, returned love-in style by Clinton. Mandela: "I must say that to have a strong leader, highly competent, but with a common touch, who worries himself about the needs of the people, is a species that is very rare in the world today . . . And the world is rich as long as he remains the President of this country." Clinton: "Here we are, South Africa is free, Nelson Mandela is President. Some dreams really do come true...