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...based on questionnaires filled in by frequent restaurantgoers, who include the likes of author-editor Michael Korda and TV chef Julia Child. They rate eateries on food quality, decor and service on a 0-to-30 scale, note the average price of a meal (including one drink and a tip) and offer a succinct judgment on the restaurant. The results, compiled by computer, are boiled down by Zagat and a team of editors into capsule ratings that can sting as well as sing. In the current New York guide, for example, Elaine's, a snobby literary and show-biz hangout...
...cleaning bill has slashed Exxon's second-quarter profits from $1 billion to $160 million, the world's largest oil company has so far suffered no serious financial hardship. Even so, warns Bryan Jacoboski, who follows the oil industry for PaineWebber, "I think this could be only the tip of the iceberg...
With split-second timing, the rod tip is lifted and the battle begun. Since the fly is attached to the line with a gossamer-thin tippet, a fisherman must use the long, sensitive rod to tire the trout as it surges and runs, leaps and sometimes literally walks across the water's surface on its tail. There is no mistaking this magic. The fish explodes again, up through a silver shower of water, shaking its head in an effort to throw the hook. You notice the color. It is gorgeous, almost surreal. The trout's meaty flanks sport outrageous spots...
Acting on a tip from a source in Harvard's facilities and maintenance department, The Crimson determined that temperatures on the fifth floor of Claverly Hall reached an all-campus high of 114 degrees...
...least one reporter picked up the scent early on. In December 1986 Joan Jacobson, a housing reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun, received a tip: Rhode Island developer Judith Siegel was throwing James Watt's name around HUD offices in Baltimore in connection with a low-income-housing rehabilitation project that Siegel wanted to develop in Essex, Md. Like any good reporter, Jacobson started asking questions. Why would the former Interior Secretary, now a Wyoming-based businessman and a professed enemy of Big Government, be involved in such a project? Jacobson started combing every public file on the 312-unit...