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Stores are paying more attention than ever to light-fingered crime. Spending for antitheft devices has gone up about 18% in the past year. The most popular anti-crime item is a plastic tag about the size of a pocket comb that stores are putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite...
...chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding tenaciously to a creed of activism that decrees, "With your hands carve out your destiny," he tends to be a hard-working farmer, a go-getting businessman or a fearless warrior. He has been described, with poetic license perhaps, as "the Texan of India...
Most moussers have been won over by practicality. Commuters like it because they can foam, comb and catch the 8:09 without fuss. Everyone saves time: a moussing can take as little as three minutes. Says Good Housekeeping Beauty Editor Nancy Abrams: "Your hair does itself while you do other things." There are more than 30 brands on the market, and giants like Elizabeth Arden plan to introduce new ones within a few months. Prices range from $1.99 for 2½ oz. of Free Hold, up to $13.95 for 15 oz. of Helene Curtis' brand. There are foams...
...week. Said Baker: "We gave them ten years of income tax returns, personal worth statements, personal history, medical records and incredible amounts of evidence. I paid Arthur Andersen [a major accounting firm] almost $10,000 to get that financial stuff up. It was gone over with a fine-tooth comb. We had follow-up questions for weeks and written explanations of particular transactions. Both Ford and Reagan did that...
...wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back with some teeth knocked out will one day be blocked in, assuming the cranes persist. Dallas leaders, boosters to their marrow, want the world to know this. They hope the Republican National Convention next week will give them the stage to get out the message. That message-Dallas...