Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building-code violations. Rather, the Calaveras fault-a tributary of the mighty San Andreas fault three miles away-runs right under his house in Hollister, Calif, (pop. 11,430), 85 miles south of San Francisco. The local Chamber of Cornmerce likes to stress the area's lush walnut and apricot groves, burgeoning industrial base and commuting proximity to "Silicone Valley." But some Hollister boosters have a catchier slogan for their community: THE EARTHQUAKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Indeed, the San Andreas fault, largest of the 32 active and inactive incisions in San Benito County, stretches out its tightened muscles...
...after the Hyatt, and leave my friend Paddy free to run his little ear on Walnut St.," councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said...
...dark-walnut-paneled Ottawa courtroom was packed with government lawyers, bureaucrats and a few curious law students last week as the nine black-robed justices of Canada's Supreme Court filed in to deliver a historic verdict on the country's future. When Chief Justice Bora Laskin began to read, there was a moment of confusion. A special sound system failed, and his words were barely audible to a nationwide television audience. But the impact of his message was clear enough. At the end of a five-month courtroom fight between the federal government of Canadian Prime Minister...
...design. The batter had gone into the oven a month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session code-named "Operation Sultana." He added a little Navy rum ("Just for flavor. You don't want people to get paralytic") and baked the largest layer for 8½ hours. The result, which was stashed behind a locked door...
...Pont's top officers immediately huddled at their Wilmington, Del., headquarters to size up the new Seagram challenge. During a marathon session in the walnut-paneled executive committee room, Chairman Jefferson exhorted his troops: "Du Pont is a strong company, and we're going into this thing...