Ms. Karmel recently organized a blind taste-test for friends that included rib eye, New York strip and skirt steak, all cooked with nothing but salt and pepper.

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Judging from a taste test--less sweet and less bubbly than Coke, with a lemony aftertaste--Red Bull Cola will have a tough time competing with the giants.

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Along the way, he is giving every job a score (with a high mark of 100) for factors like skill, enjoyment and prospects, then tallying them up at the end to decide his best fit--a taste test to his career, if you will.

FORBES: Employment

If the SenesTech taste test proves successful and birth-control bait is used throughout the transit system, the average life span of subway rats which now tops out at about one year, according to Mr. Lamb would probably rise slightly even as the total population declines.

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Curiosity has many "mouths" to taste test rocks or dust it vacuums up -- really, to analyze them chemically.

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The running commentary among the taste testers prompted KFC to move extra-crispy Buffalo chicken into test markets, along with the apple pie.

FORBES: Happier meals

White Salmon, Washington -- population 2, 143 -- won top honors Tuesday at the Great American Water Taste Test.

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The duo missed England's 2-0 Test series win over Bangladesh but will return for their first taste of international action for their country this summer against Scotland in Edinburgh on 19 June, with the first of six one-day internationals against Australia following three days later at The Rose Bowl.

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