Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less famous recent case, a Boston judge took complete custody rights away from Virginia LaLonde, whose only crime seems to be the failure to convince the courts that her ex-husband raped their daughter. The judge found the LaLonde child, a 12-year-old, to be too much under the influence of her mother. Her mother can no longer see her, and her father, the same man the girl called a rapist a few years ago, is now her sole guardian...
Sensor is the product of Gillette's all-out effort to lure customers away from throw-away razors, which have grabbed more than 60% of shaver sales. Gillette makes such razors too, but they typically produce a thin profit margin for their manufacturers. The Boston-based company invested $200 million in Sensor technology, and will spend an additional $175 million this year to introduce the product. When it goes on sale in January, Sensor will be priced at about $3.75 for the razor and three blades. Gillette hopes to sell 15 million razors the first year and snare...
...been slow to respond to the dramatic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the comment, "I don't want to do anything dumb." That remark has several translations, among them: "I don't want the anti-Communist right to accuse me of giving away the store...
...Legal Services Corporation. But Butler's future dimmed when the former Virginia Congressman told a group of conservatives that he would not stop a Legal Services lawyer from suing a hospital that refused to provide a Medicaid abortion. The group complained to chief of staff John Sununu, who backed away from the nomination...
...clear, it signals and is joined by a second elephant. In ritual greeting the two behemoths entwine their trunks, flap their enormous ears and clack tusk against tusk, sending the cold crack of ivory across the Ngulia Hills. That same sound is heard 10,000 miles away in Hong Kong and Tokyo, where ivory traders stack tusk upon tusk -- more than 800 tons, scrubbed clean of blood and connective tissue and laundered free of illegality...