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...sales: $10 million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that is based just on the queries we've had in the past three weeks." The company makes "blister packs": plastic sheets that encase each capsule in a container within its own bubble. Tiny Pillar Corp. of Milwaukee (1981 sales: $2 million) is awash in stacks of new orders for its sealing machinery. Says President Ernest Goggio: "People want to buy right now. They don't want to fool...
...shrink wraps that cover the cap and neck of some syrup and sauce bottles, vacuum seals like those on instant-coffee jars, and baby-food "pop tops" that bulge visibly once opened. The single most effective form of protection for drugs, according to the Little research, would be blister packages like those currently used for SmithKline's cold medicine Contac...
...exhilarating, the era shattered the confidence of the postwar College, and punctured most of the stuffy heritage (and too many of the civilized and gentle men) that always had marked this school. It was probably the shortest lived important era in the College's history. By 1973, the blister had burst, the swelling gone down, the fever broken. William Mattin '72, "I seem to recall another building occupation what was largely ignored during my senior year, but by my graduation in 1972, the seventies, for better or worse, had begun." WHICH brings us to the present, to the era that...
...while during the second game, Harvard seemed in for more of the same. The Jumbos built a four-one lead through four innings, and Harvard senior Jim Curtin, pitching the final game of his varsity career, had the misfortune of a blister breaking on his pitching hand in the second. He had fairly breezed through the first two frames allowing only one hit and recording two strikeouts...
...with sex. Pardoxically, she is the epitome of what Professor Wolf, the director of the school, seeks to produce: a humanitarian executioner. "This girl could stand before a camera and do anything, even bury people alive, and viewers' hearts would bleed at the thought that she might get a blister...