Word: tomatos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patience of larger firms. "If we can't make these tests in a reasonable period of time," says Howard Schneiderman, Monsanto's senior vice president for research and development, "I'm going to give up and just not do it. If someone is going to worry about a tomato plant that will devour New York City or a microbial pesticide that will develop into plague, I can't justify spending millions of dollars a year on products I can't test...
...what does the East Cambridge lawmaker want to do with the overpass? Give the land to local residents interested in growing plum tomato plants...
...think that consumers may soon get bored with the $40 million Herb campaign. The commercials have not yet generated the rise in sales that Burger King expected, say industry experts. One reason: McDonald's has countered with an $80 million advertising blitz to promote its new beef, lettuce and tomato sandwich, the McD.L.T...
...there is no doubt about the natural superiority of pasta, there are several questions that haunt the addict who dreams of little else. What pasta shapes go best with which sauces? Is the rich meatiness of a beef-and-tomato sauce better appreciated when wound into the long, sturdy strands of bucatini or when filling the cavities of the convoluted lumache, or snail shell? Have any shapes become so unfashionable that they are being phased out? What will the newly increased U.S. tariff (from less than 1% of value to 40%) do to the price of imported pasta? And, finally...
...Arabic phrase books and necklaces adorned with Sphinx pendants. "They were laughing and dancing a little to the belly-dance music playing in the shop," recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal in the grand ballroom, dining on tomato soup, roast chicken and French pastry. One of the officers offered a prayer: "We are going home. We have finished our job. Let us thank...