Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fears that available programming will soon disappear have sent the home satellite business into a nose dive. Sales of dishes, tooling along at about 70,000 a month last autumn, fell to fewer than 15,000 in January. Bert LeCroy, owner of Sky Search Video in the Atlanta suburbs, estimates that ten dish dealers in the area have closed their doors in just the past two weeks. Many consumers are upset that the costly dishes they bought in pursuit of video independence may turn out to be duds. Says Vincent Morgan, 41, who has a dish in the backyard...
...follow federal guidelines for releasing live, genetically altered organisms into the environment but also neglected to conduct an environmental assessment of the risks involved. Stung by the petition and aware of Rifkin's uncanny success in obtaining court injunctions to back his demands, the USDA beat a hasty retreat. Bert Hawkins, administrator of the department's animal and plant health inspection service, conceded that the USDA did not "document" its environmental analysis because "we felt the product was not significantly different from products already on the market. In fact, it was a safer product. But we should have documented...
...finishes, twists his accreted features into a look of gentle disdain, and laughs, "Well, I'll be the first to admit it. Bert's story here has a few problems...
Under an agreement with the government, the University of Pennsylvania will increase the use of pain-relieving drugs in animal experiments, the care of injured animals, and the training of research workers who handle laboratory animals, said Bert W. Hawkins, administrator of the Federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
...takes long. After four years of staying with and sponging off Alice's divorced mother (whose class Jasper winningly calls "bourgeois pigs"), the couple is out on the streets again. Fortunately there is 43 Old Mill Road, a dilapidated London house that has been commandeered by Jasper's friend Bert as headquarters and campsite for something called the Communist Centre Union...