Word: bumper
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DIED. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 56, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Gulf & Western Industries; of a heart attack; on a company jet en route from the Dominican Republic. Bluhdorn arrived in the U.S. from Vienna at 16 and in 1955 bought into the small Michigan Bumper Corp., which he merged and muscled into a huge conglomerate (auto parts to movies to zinc) with 1982 sales of $5.3 billion. "Sometimes I'm full of baloney," the blunt Bluhdorn once said. "But sometimes I have a good idea...
...weather, hoping that nature will spoil the lucrative crop of opium poppies that are the economic mainstay of the mountainous region where the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos converge. This year the climate has been kind to the poppy growers and bad for the DEA: a bumper crop of 700 tons is expected, 100 tons more than last year. But the U.S. narcs are not very worried. The reason: in Burma's remote Shan state, where nearly 80% of the area's opium is grown, vicious fighting between the warlords who dominate the drug traffic has closed...
Opponents of the amendment, including lobbyists for beverage interests, claim the measures would create incentive for students to litter and throw away bottles and cans rather than return them, in order to contribute to the scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...
Harvard again netted a bumper crop of freshmen this year with Annie Wilson and Allison Greis, the early-season standouts. Wilson has already qualified for four events at the Easterns, and Greis has earned a championship berth in seven events...
...this fall for corn, wheat and soybeans, harvesting more than 13 billion bu. of the three crops combined. They grew another 1.94 billion bu. of oats, barley and grain sorghum. But elevators, silos and bins are already swelling with a 4.39 billion-bu. carryover from last year's bumper crop. Although new storage facilities are being built at a record rate, they will not be enough to hold this year's harvest. Empty barges and railroad hoppers, airplane hangars, even high school football fields and city streets are being pressed into service as makeshift repositories. Says Agriculture Secretary...