Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COLOR PURPLE, by Alice Walker, sold at the Penguin Bookstore...
...Crimson had arrived at the tournament only 15 minutes before it was scheduled to play, and one of the players was wearing the wrong color shorts for the first match. Harvard had to forfeit that game, but it won the third match...
...huge consumer demand for capsules still exists despite the Tylenol scare. Many people find the gelatin-cased medicine easier to swallow and less bitter than tablets. The bright color combinations of capsules also make them more readily identifiable. Moreover, because so many prescription medicines come in capsule form, a common--but false--impression has arisen that capsules are more effective than tablets...
...decline, though, has brought higher costs for foreign goods and overseas vacations. Sony recently raised prices by 5% on its entire line of color television sets because of the falling dollar. A 19-in., remote-control model, for example, now costs $630, vs. $600 in December. Prices of Japanese cars and machine tools have also risen by 5% since December. Last week the American subsidiary of West Germany's Mercedes-Benz added 5.8% to the sticker price of its autos. Pouilly-Fuisse, a popular white burgundy that sold in stores for about $12 in 1985, now goes for as much...
...paper that does not have to worry about the printers' unions is Today, which debuts next week. Today represents something completely new for Britain: an electronically reproduced daily paper with four-color pages. Founded by Eddy Shah, a successful purveyor of provincial giveaway newspapers, Today will be a 44-page tabloid heavy on domestic news and sports. By setting up his state-of-the-art plant three miles from Fleet Street, Shah skirted the printers entirely, and instead is negotiating a no-strike deal with his employees. Today's staff, including deliverers, numbers only 600, anorectic by the overstuffed standards...