Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Budweiser ad). In Detroit, one of the hottest items is a $2 button of John Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick Kline, of Los Angeles' Front Row Center Ticket Service...
...Kosuke Asano, 63, president of Nippon Light Metal, felt fit enough to walk 20 minutes to his office each morning from a train station. But after returning home from work one day in March, he died of a stroke. His company, Japan's largest aluminum producer, had been battered by cheap imports and was desperately trying to diversify into consumer products like ice cream-making machines...
...homecoming of sorts; he received degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. His career in various human resources posts has taken him from a 19-year stint with the Inland Steel Company--where he was responsible for 24,000 employees--to the $6 billion corporation Alcan Aluminum, and now to Harvard...
When Waylon Nickell and Donald Seek of King County, Wash., went scavenging for aluminum cans in a ravine south of Seattle late last month, they found much & more than they had bargained for. Nestled amid the weeds and debris near the bottom of the slope was a human skull. The next day police uncovered the remains of Cindy Anne Smith, a 17-year-old King County woman who had been missing for more than three years. The grisly discovery brought to 37 the number of young women murdered in a series of slayings that has baffled police since July...
...inexplicable as the set itself. On one side, the stage has a large chain-linked fence; on the other is a floor grate that lets off steam or wind-swept orange rags meant to represent fire. In the middle stands a wall that seems to be covered with aluminum foil...