Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend and spend and spend for health care--$550 billion in 1988, comprising 11.5 percent of our GNP. Yet America's infant mortality rate ranks 18th among industrialized nations. The rate of Black infant mortality is twice that of whites and is comparable to rates in many Third World nations...
...Black smoke wafted from the wreckage as a somber-faced Gorbachev, along with Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, was shown speaking to people at the scene...
Fishing in rural lakes is usually a contemplative pastime, but the black-bass tournament on Alabama's Lake Guntersville earlier this month seemed more like the Indy 500. Some 320 anglers set out in their boats at 5 a.m., battling the morning chill and 3-ft. waves in pursuit of fish and fortunes. The competitors were equipped with the latest in sonar and trolling motors, the better to pursue their wily prey. When the anglers returned to shore, crowds gasped in excitement as judges weighed the catch and flashed the results on a digital screen. The winner, Robert Byrd...
B.A.S.S. is the creation of Ray Scott, 56, a former insurance salesman who in 1967 sensed the weekend angler's craving for tips on outwitting the combative black bass, which are actually green. The biggest ones are referred to by aficionados as lunkers. Says Scott, a fishing pal of Bush's: "The bass is so unbelievably fickle that the world's best minds can't tell you where he'll show next. He's a phantom." Aided by that mystique, Scott organized the professional tours and arranged sponsorship deals in which manufacturers help pay expenses. The company's fortunes have...
...called peace bread was also being offered to customers at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Russian Tea Room. U.S. entrepreneur Fred Kayden arranged the imports after 7 1/2 months of negotiations with Soviet officials and a "perestroika entrepreneur" in Moscow. But Kayden may not have a black-bread monopoly for long. Zaro's Bread Basket, a New York City bakery chain, plans to start selling imported Soviet bread for $5 a loaf. Would Muscovites pay that kind of price for Wonder bread...