Its creator, Jean-Claude Ellena, was inspired by his own garden, which blooms with white and blue irises in spring.

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Expect a Blue Plate Taco restaurant and bar in spring 2012.

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Made from personally selected blue agave plants, multiple distilled with pure spring water, it gets its platinum color from ultra-modern filtration, and is finished by hand with an extra anejo tequila which has rested in oak barrels for five years to enhance the flavor.

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Separately, an arbor anchored on the top terrace offers two seasons of interest: A purple wisteria blooms in spring, and a Concord grapevine provides armfuls of dark-blue fruit in the summer.

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Executives of such blue chips as United Airlines and Salomon Smith Barney were at the White House this spring toasting President Clinton's one-year-old Welfare to Work Partnership and saying their welfare hires had better retention rates than workers found from other sources.

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Koppel wore a light blue shirt, dark suit and tie before the bright lights at Discovery Headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.

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The Blue Sox, who have enjoyed two rare successes at Odsal in the Super League era, threatened to spring another surprise when stand-off Martin Pearson put them in front after only three minutes with a penalty goal kicked from two metres inside the Bradford half.

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