Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt and fought past his nervousness to tell everyone that the band's song Under the Blade, allegedly a glorification of S-M, was in fact about fear of surgery. "The only sado-masochism present," he insisted, "was in Tipper Gore's mind...
Mockler, a member of the Corporation since 1982, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Boston based Gillette Company, the giant personal-care products concern that had revenues of $5.9 billion last year Gillette, according to company spokesman Doug Kenney, owns one razor blade and toiletries manufacturing plant in Springs, South Africa which employs 200 people (out of a company-wide work force of 76,100), including some Blacks. For the past seven years, Kenney says, Gillette has scored the highest rating for its adherence to the Sullivan Principles, a set of six equal opportunity provisions for companies doing...
...years ago this month, the North Vietnamese swept down the map like the blade of a guillotine. They came in full divisions, with artillery and tanks. They banged across the countryside like Patton. It was no longer the endless, hallucinatory Viet Nam at all, but blitzkrieg, Western war, all of those years of inconclusive struggle finished off briskly in a short, surreal spring...
...wall of air, or an invisible ray into visibility....big, slow-moving men in the uniforms of the teams they had served. They lumbered onto the field and their feet touched the earth, yet the earth did not take note of them; they raised no dust, disturbed no blade of grass...
Other winners include Schick, which lags 3-to-1 behind Gillette in the U.S. razor-blade market but leads its archrival 7-to-1 in Japan. Schick introduced a twin-blade cartridge in 1972, one year before Gillette, and has an edge over even Feather, the biggest Japanese company in the field...