Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, this story may prove that blood is thicker than alcohol. Few seniors--who already have the right to drink--will risk becoming implicated in such a plot...
...lunch, more "21" favorites are on the menu in new guises, not all of them improvements. Among the better results are the brilliantly cold, clear oysters; bluepoints, Cotuits and belons are handsomely served on seaweed- strewn ice with a cocktail sauce that has a thicker, lusher texture than in the past. Other welcome additions are the puffy, golden-brown crab cakes with a gossamer horseradish-butter-cream sauce and the rose-pink calves liver bedded down on red-onion marmalade. Chicken hash, as always, is really creamed chicken but fresher and more flavorful...
...even after the reverse split there will be more than 300 shareholders. On one day in April, three Bacardis met at Miami's airport and created 240 trusts. Management claims that these shifts came too late. Whatever the outcome, it seems that in the distilling business blood may be thicker than water, but not necessarily thicker than...
...most important sandwich is undoubtedly the hamburger, whether the thin patty made famous by fast-food chains or the thicker chopped-steak version, epitomized by the specimen at Acorn on Oak, a bar and grill in Chicago. Most familiar among workaday sandwiches are the coffee-shop regulars: bacon, lettuce and tomato, tuna or egg salad, the classic combo of ham and Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York...
...about Giotto's chances. As they continued to interpret Vega 1's data, they discovered that its passage through the dust jet had damaged 45% of the craft's solar panels. During Giotto's much closer encounter with the comet, the European probe was bound to pass through far thicker clouds of dust on what some scientists characterized as a "kamikaze mission...