Word: combe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following weeks I led the crusade to combat dandruff by installing shampoo vending machines in the houses. We fought untidyness with comb dispensers, scurvy with Vitamin C dispensers, acne with Clearasil dispensers. We hired nurses to stand ready at all houses 24 hours a day, ready to fit women with diaphragms in an emergency. Next to the nurse was stationed a barber ready at all times to sell emergency haircuts to anyone who was unable to make it to the Square...
...their departure in 1985. The prospect of increased tourism appears bleak. Grenada's twelve hotels remain half empty during peak season. Cruise ships make regular stops, but the mad dashes of passengers through gift shops are hardly a permanent boon to the economy. Vendors hawking spices and tropical shirts comb the beaches for stray tourists...
Some of the interns are also good ballplayers. These select few command high stipends from willing Intern Coordinators who know prestige in D.C. is a function of softball records. With this in mind, they comb through thousands of resumes, basing their choices on recommendations from local coaches...
Such scenes are taking place all over America today, as other foreign scouting parties comb the highways and byways on the lookout for profitable finds. The searchers are Japanese and British, Canadian and South Korean, West German and Swiss, and all of them have one thought in mind: Buy! Buy! Buy! They are in search not only of factories but also of skyscrapers, shopping malls, farms and forest land, ski resorts and vineyards, refineries and mineral deposits. They have already bought some of the biggest and best-known corporations in the U.S., and their appetite appears to be gargantuan...
White has helped engineer a fresh approach to TIME's coverage of stories that require intensive reporting and analysis: deploying teams of correspondents with special expertise, then giving them plenty of time to comb through the complexities of their subject. This week's glimpse into the volatile inner cities was just such a project. White's team consisted of New York-based Correspondent Thomas McCarroll, who provided a gripping profile of a black family in Newark; Los Angeles Correspondent Jon D. Hull, who described a harrowing murder committed by a youth-gang member in Los Angeles; and Washington Correspondent Anne...