Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odds of winning the spiffy Mustang convertible in the Alpha Beta supermarket chain's California Dreamin' sweepstakes, the entry form said, were about 1 in 3.7 million. But for Navy Mechanic James Lee of San Diego, it was a cinch. In fact, a year after claiming the Mustang, Lee was lucky enough to win a $28,500 Chevy Corvette in a Taco Bell sweepstakes. Last week a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lee, Marketing Executives John Curtin III and Kevin Kissane and two of their relatives on mail-fraud charges of rigging the sweepstakes. Curtin and Kissane...
...sudden food inflation has prompted some consumers to suspect that many people in the food chain -- from farmers to retailers -- are using the drought as an excuse to gouge customers a bit, which may be true in a few cases. Government economists acknowledge that the dry spell has created an atmosphere in which consumers respond to the price increases with grudging acceptance. But some prices are still bound to produce a mild case of sticker shock. At one market in Baltimore, boxes of Post Grape-Nuts cereal have been marked up four times in the past six weeks...
...Living Fence costs $3 a foot, in contrast to $42 a foot for a chain link fence. Except for an occasional pruning (which must be done carefully), P.T. plants require virtually no maintenance. They take five years to reach effective size, but Barrier Concepts says the bushes last up to 35 years, three times as long as most metal fences. The firm hopes to sell its product to private citizens, perhaps by pushing the idea that Living Fences make the best neighbors...
Such selective cutting, however, which allowed forests to regenerate species that had no commercial value as well as the highly prized Douglas fir, seemed too inefficient to the Government foresters. Now, perhaps too late, research has shown that clear-cuts tend to break an important ecological chain: they destroy the habitat of small mammals that shelter in forest undergrowth. These creatures eat and distribute mycorrhizal fungi, which grow among the rootlets of saplings and help the trees absorb water and nutrients. There may be enough spores of fungi in the soil after a clear-cut to start a second-growth...
...upbringing was almost as charmed as Bush's. Born in Indianapolis into the Pulliam publishing family, whose newspapers rank 18th in circulation nationwide and whose fortune is estimated at somewhere above $1 billion, Quayle moved to Arizona when his father took over public relations for part of the newspaper chain there. He developed a lifelong affection for golf and Senator Barry Goldwater, in that order. The family returned to Indiana during his senior year of high school, when Quayle's father became publisher of the Huntington Herald-Press. Quayle immediately became a member of the "A clique" there, according...