Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must fall below 60% of gross domestic product, and budget deficits may not surpass 3% of GDP. If fewer than seven countries meet the test by the target date, then the currency will be delayed until 1999, when qualifying nations will put the ECU into circulation as their legal tender. Countries still unable to adopt the ECU by that date will do so when their economic performance matches the E.C. guidelines. In addition, a European Monetary Institute will be established in 1994 and will later achieve full powers as Europe's central bank...
...Year; give it Song Title of the Year (Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead). Give it, while you're at it, credit for being unapologetically harsh, nasty, ironic and really rather terrific. Zevon's as tough as a film-noir hero; when he turns tender, it's only so you can better hear the sound of doom coming up like thunder...
...Erin is a real blue-chip goal-tender," Dooley said. "And if you have a goalie, you can play this game...
...River soft-shell crabs and conch are year-round regulars on menus, as are pompano, dolphinfish, yellowfin tuna and lesser-known delicacies like wahoo and cobia, both meatier, more flavorful catches. There are endless variations on snapper -- yellowtail, mangrove, hog and mutton -- all of them sweeter, firmer and more tender than the red snapper shipped out of state...
...long walk, a tale to while away the distance -- the elderly Alessandro rattles on owlishly. "Tell me," he says, "what kind of feet do you have?" Nicolo is confused. "I have human feet, Signore." Alessandro lectures: "Of course, but two kinds of feet exist . . . Feet of despair are too tender, and can't fight back . . . On the other hand, if I may, are the feet of invincibility...