He frequently invites chef friends to take over his restaurant Harry's Pizzeria for a night, and twice in the last six months, shrimp toast has taken a star turn on guest's menus once from Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune in New York, and again from Jonathan Sawyer of Cleveland's Greenhouse Tavern.
Other species of mammal prune plants too albeit as a side-effect of eating them.
One was the growth of in-house legal teams, pioneered by GE, who not only provide advice on routine matters but actively monitor and prune the thicket of outside lawyers that feed on every large company.
It should be able to prune vines at about half the cost of manual labour, says Derek Morikawa, the chief executive of Vision Robotics.
The biggest, an effort to prune the country's dreadful thicket of indirect taxes into a tidier form, an all-India Goods and Services Tax, has been pushed back by a year, to April 2012.
Despite the fact that millions have eaten prunes and drunk prune juice in order to lighten themselves of their internal burden for centuries, the European Union has now ruled that prunes are not in fact laxatives.
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The government has begun to make spending cuts, but these fall far short of what may be required to prune an overgrown public sector.
Who could have predicted that my Pistachio-Pesto Salmon, introduced in 1998 in "Entertaining 1-2-3, " would essentially become a national dish, or that short ribs cooked in prune juice and teriyaki would capture the hearts of so many food editors?
Another is the need for European banks to slim their balance-sheets: trade finance, because of its short-term nature, is easy to prune.
The recent round of consolidation in the financial industry has given them another excuse to step up this process: merger partners need to prune holdings so that banks' combined stakes do not exceed 5% of a company's stock, the legal limit.
The airline also plans to prune its flight schedule by just under 4% during the first three months of 2003.
Until the electronics makers are willing to prune their businesses to concentrate on a few targeted areas rather than stock a bit of everything on their shelves, they will continue to flounder as the world passes them by.
It looks like pure fat, but it isn't, really, just mainly, and when served in the split shank bone (as at places like the Knickerbocker or Prune in New York City), one portion will keep you in a state of sensory-specific satiety for a week.
Some firms have moved to prune their plans, by shrinking benefit amounts or lowering caps that limit retiree payments to a certain percentage of profits.
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