Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorts of nontraditional places: on the job, in day-care centers, even at tailgate parties. In the past Tupperware was pushed exclusively at living-room gatherings of housewives, a successful marketing strategy devised by Inventor Earl Tupper not long after he dreamed up the product in the 1940s. But as more and more women joined the work force, the party calmed down and eventually had to move. From 1982 through 1985, Tupperware's sales dropped 13.3%, to $762 million. Then last year the company, based in Kissimmee, Fla., began staging its parties wherever working women might be found. Presto: sales...
...brush and made fluent, wristy drawing impossible. Instead, all is deliberate plotting. You do not look through the paint but at it. Braque's determination to keep everything on the surface is the first thing that strikes you in the great still lifes and interiors of the 1940s and '50s, and it lends them the breadth and declamatory power of traditional fresco. Even when the form is inherently mysterious or logically inexplicable -- like the bird that flaps like a silent, benign apparition through the workaday clutter in his Studio paintings of 1949-56 -- you are aware of its density...
...third of the final award, which can run into the millions. He claims to win 95% of his cases, a figure that is all the more impressive in view of his reputation for taking "impossible" cases. His trick is to combine meticulous research with show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized...
...Salinas, the challenge from the left is more bothersome than that of P.A.N., an electoral foe since the 1940s. A wage-and-price pact introduced in December cooled inflation to 1.9% in May, its lowest rate since November 1981. But the pact is fraying, and between the election and inauguration day in December, pressures will grow for populist measures. "Before there was no serious organized opposition to policies," said Castaneda. "Now P.R.I. is worried that a strong showing by Cardenas will change this...
...memos and reports used in the case by Edell establish that tobacco- company executives were aware in the early 1940s that medical researchers were linking smoking to cancer, a connection the industry still denies. A 1961 report produced by Philip Morris listed the specific cancer-causing ingredients in cigarette smoke, concluding, "Carcinogens are found in practically every class of compounds in smoke." Another study, prepared the same year by the Arthur D. Little consulting firm for Liggett, stated, "There are biologically active materials present in cigarette tobacco that are (a) cancer causing (b) cancer promoting (c) poisonous (d) stimulating, pleasurable...