Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those equipped with seals or other devices that users must break to gain access to the product. Predicts Ben Miyares, executive editor of Food and Drug Packaging magazine: "Packages designed to show evidence of tampering will be the wave of the future." The management-consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, which has been studying the problem, advocates the wider application of several safety methods now used on some grocery products. They include the tight plastic bands or shrink wraps that cover the cap and neck of some syrup and sauce bottles, vacuum seals like those on instant-coffee jars...
...wonder, then, that writers have taken such pains to portray the power of certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely...
...rescuers of the Mary Rose hope that their precious find can go on display as early as next year in Portsmouth, at a drydock close to Lord Nelson's famous flagship H.M.S. Victory. Says Discoverer McKee: "This is a dream come true." - By George Russell. Reported by Arthur White/Portsmouth
...left Tylenol available only in tablet and liquid varieties. Even as Tylenol capsules piled up in warehouses, Johnson & Johnson and other drug companies were grappling with an even more difficult, expensive and far-reaching problem: how to package over-the-counter medications to minimize the chances of tampering. Said Arthur Hull Hayes, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, which is hastily drafting new packaging regulations: "Within a week, we'll know what options are available to us." However, he added in a statement that was very far from reassuring, "it is important to make clear that a tamperproof...
...fear is that if we don't catch him quickly, he will do this again, maybe with another product." Maybe some place other than the Chicago area too. In addition, authorities feared there might be "copycat" poisonings by deranged people looking for a perverted sort of glory. Said Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at Northwestern University's Rehabilitation Institute: "We can expect to see a number of recurrences of this type of thing, just as we saw airliner hijackings come in clusters...