Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...careered wildly down and up. Yet when the dust settled, share prices in most cases were pretty much back to where they were before the week began, and in New York, they were up substantially. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of Wall Street's leading blue-chip stocks ended the week at 860.73, a 37-point rise over the previous Friday closing...
...fiscal 1982. In Missouri, officials have cut back on the number of prescriptions a person can obtain, set standard reimbursement rates for various medical operations, and refused to pay for weekend hospital admissions except in emergencies. Faced with a $51 million shortfall, Illinois is requiring welfare recipients to chip in a dollar for every doctor visit or pharmacy order. Explains Budget Director Robert Mandeville: "This will cause folks to think twice." 1982, this program will be cut by $1.1 billion. Nearly all states will be forced to either clip or eliminate completely the benefits for 7% of all recipients. Some...
...Chipwich is a sandwich made by placing vanilla or chocolate ice cream between two large chocolate-chip cookies, then covering the edges of the ice cream with chocolate chips. Priced at $1 and sold from street pushcarts, the Chipwich scored in the munchie market after its introduction in New York City last spring...
...LaMotta's dream is now melting a bit. This summer Good Humor began to sell a Chipwich lookalike, the Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich. Chipwich has filed a $13 million lawsuit against Good Humor in New York Federal District Court, charging unfair competition and trademark infringement. LaMotta claims Good Humor also took unfair advantage of confidential information gleaned last winter when Chipwich explored with Good Humor the possibility that the company would distribute Chipwich in the Northeast...
...Pryce-Jones proves that Vichy cooperation went beyond facilitating the deportation of Jews. Laval knew that there were no "labor" camps at the end of the German train lines, but that did not concern him. His only thought was to use the twisted German racial ideology as a bargaining chip. In the author's words: "If the Germans wanted the Jews so badly...they could have them, but at the price of conceding something (Laval) might want...