Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, the two companies were very complementary. Phibro reaped profits of $467 million last year by trading in about 150 commodities ranging from tobacco and cocoa to zirconium and Peruvian bird droppings. It now wanted to offer new financial services like raising investment capital for its trading clients. The 71-year-old Salomon Bros., on the other hand, wished to expand its operations beyond traditional bond trading and corporate underwriting. Strategic metals, grains and other commodities, after all, have in recent years been some of the best investments around...
...This certainly isn't Cocoa Beach, where you feel the sand between your toes," Ray Morth, a 51-year-old daily Fresh Pond jogger says, huffing heavily between words. "But," he adds, "it's the closest thing...
Most teen-agers would probably have been delighted to learn they had got 48 out of 50 questions right on a tough mathematical aptitude test. Not Daniel Lowen, 17, a junior at Cocoa Beach High School in Florida. Told his score in the math portion of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test that he took last fall along with 830,000 other students nationwide, Dan was displeased. He was convinced that his answer to question No. 44-one of those marked incorrect-was in fact correct. He even made a model to prove his case to his father, Douglas Lowen...
Working only a few hours a week to start. I had plenty of time left over to sun-bathe. Luckily, I could get a 10-per-cent employee's discount on my Super-Saver cocoa butter lotion. Not bad, I thought, until I realized that after taxes my pay would total less than $100 a week. Even with cheap cocoa butter lotion, you can't go very far on that...
...smoking reported last week that low-yield brands reduce the risk of developing lung cancer only slightly, and heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis not at all. There is also a new worry. To enhance the cigarettes' weaker flavor, manufacturers have been using additives, some of which, like cocoa, turn into cancer-causing substances when burned. More bad news was contained in the British Medical Journal. A 14-year study of 265,000 Japanese men and women concluded that a husband who smoked 20 cigarettes a day doubled a nonsmoking wife's chance of dying of lung cancer...