Word: syrup
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...cost of research, expiring patents and the explosive growth of generic drugs, many pharmaceutical companies will step up efforts to broaden their global reach through mergers or cooperative ventures. But such pressures were few in 1896, when Hoffmann-La Roche was formed in Basel and began producing a cough syrup called Sirolin. The company prospered at first but then almost went broke during World War I because one of its important markets was revolution-torn Russia. Fearing a Nazi invasion in the 1930s, Hoffmann-La Roche created a twin Canadian-based company called Sapac to run its overseas operations...
Among his most memorable creations is modeling chocolate, which he perfected while working at the Four Seasons. It is a blend of semisweet chocolate, corn syrup and water that solidifies in any shape it has been sculptured into. The stuff tastes like a Tootsie Roll, but its durability was the key to Kumin's perfection of flourless cakes. He constructs artful boxes of modeling chocolate and fills them with rich puddings or mousses...
...them conflicting. America's gold-medal speed skater, Bonnie Blair, 23, was the picture of invulnerability or delicacy, depending on whether she was all packed up in her peppermint suit, streaming across the ice, or her hair was falling down afterward in curls. (It's the color of maple syrup in the morning.) "I'm just a person who likes to chase someone," she said in a voice that sounded too small for a champion of the world, 5 ft. 5 in. tall...
...Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia. Honey from a Weed (Harper & Row; 374 pages; $25) is a rich and idiosyncratic ramble through those festivals and harvests, and it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. There are detailed recipes for such local delicacies as grapes in syrup from Greece and an Italian fried chicken in walnut sauce. There are tantalizing myths about ingredients and observations about subjects like the olive field: "Like the pains of child-birth, one quickly forgets the olive-picking pains." Forced to work with primitive utensils and sparse ingredients, Gray notes that "good cooking...
...rival companies are working on similar substances. Among the possible competitors: the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo (maker of Lay's potato chips and Fritos corn chips), CPC International (Mazola corn oil and Hellmann's mayonnaise) and the Lever Brothers subsidiary of Unilever (Imperial margarine and Mrs. Butterworth's syrup and pancake mixes...