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...being prepared for market, he does not add that the practice is prohibited in European Community countries because it removes the protective bloom, a film the hen deposits on the shell. McGee also gives scant coverage to vegetables, fruits, herbs and nuts, a shortcoming he acknowledges, calling them token entries, included to impart a sense of completeness to the work...
...stability is at the crossroads," admitted Subroto, Indonesia's Oil Minister and the current president of OPEC, at the start of the session. Yet the most that the ministers could agree on was minor adjustments like lowering OPEC's price for the heaviest grade of Saudi crude by a token 50?...
Sure, you’ve got legends like Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg and Mark Spitz—the token Chosen Athletes often evoked, quite indignantly, at the suggestion that the Jewish culture and the athletic culture might not go hand-in-hand—but the list does not continue far beyond these names...
...same token, he avoids making the kind of overwhelmingly clear-cut retrospective moral judgments of which his narrator seems to have been incapable, given her involvement and her supposed ignorance of the full extent of the atrocities for which her boss was responsible. There is no final cut to footage from Auschwitz—or to any image that would remind us of what Traudl...
...fuss over blood quanta, blood ultimately has little to do with how “Native American” a person is. Half Creeks may make the personal choice to minimize their Creek identity and stress their other half. By the same token, Cherokees generations removed from the tribe may still cherish their Cherokee heritage...