Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LANDS' END. The largest of the three, Lands' End posted revenues of $456 million for the twelve months ending last January, an increase of 35% from the previous year and not far from the $580 million in sales racked up in 1988 by L.L. Bean, still the captain of the sportswear-catalog industry. Lands' End, launched in 1963 by Chairman Gary Comer, then a 36-year-old advertising copywriter at Young & Rubicam in Chicago, sells moderately priced, well-made staples. Among them: oxford-cloth shirts ($19.50); cotton twill skirts ($32.50); and silk foulard ties ($19). One of the company...
...statement, taped to the walls, was torn down and efforts were made to intimidate me into leaving the area. I was told I am not a proper, loyal HUCTW member and I am no longer wanted in the union. Every possible pressure short of physical violence was brought to bean against me. Voters attempting to read out statements were taken aside by Union staff and instructed to ignore it on the grounds that we were a small group of cranks and anti-union activists. Voters were verbally instructed to vote for the contract even as they stood in line...
...first hitter he faced in batting practice was Lance Parrish, a former Detroit catcher he had been partial to in Flint. ("I definitely didn't want to bean him.") The ball came flying back with a wonderful new timbre. "He was the first guy I ever faced with a wooden bat," says Abbott, too young to see the sadness in how far a player has to come these days to escape aluminum. After hitting against the rookie, Parrish moved behind the plate: "He probably has as strong an arm as any lefthander I've ever caught. His motion...
...response, the U.S.-led NATO proposal sounded modest and a bit miserly. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe spelled out the West's starting position, warning that NATO was not interested in a "competitive striptease." The plan, which he said went "far beyond bean counting," in essence called for deep cuts in the Eastern forces, with only minor reductions of up to 10% in NATO dispositions. Baker gave a more philosophical speech, but it was thin on specifics and failed to counter Shevardnadze's longer-range proposals...
...they should all be performed. The tools of molecular biology have enormous potential for both good and evil. Lurking behind every genetic dream come true is a possible Brave New World nightmare. After all, it is the DNA of human beings that might be tampered with, not some string bean or laboratory mouse. To unlock the secrets hidden in the chromosomes of human cells is to open up a host of thorny legal, ethical, philosophical and religious issues, from invasion of privacy and discrimination to the question of who should play God with man's genes...