Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somebody trying to steal secrets from Tony the Tiger? Apparently so, according to officials at Kellogg headquarters in Battle Creek, Mich. Since 1907, millions of people have toured the Kellogg plant where Special K, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes and other popular cereals are produced. Unfortunately, the company says, at least two recent visitors have actually been industrial spies sneaking a peek at the company's technology. Last week, in a move to foil further plots, Kellogg announced that it will no longer conduct public tours inside the factory...
...move has caused consternation among members of the local Chamber of Commerce. City boosters say that with no more plant tours, their tourist industry will lose its snap, crackle and pop. They may be right. The town's best remaining attractions are a bird sanctuary and the Battle Creek...
...Sylvan center in Walnut Creek, Calif., Aaron Ruiz, 8, frowns before an audiovisual machine. Like many other youngsters, Aaron has had learning problems: his school wanted to put him into special-education classes, but his mother brought him to Sylvan. A teacher shows Aaron flash cards that say HUG, LUG. He misreads the first word as bug, then catches his mistake. When he corrects it and completes the test successfully, the teacher rewards him with four yellow tokens. These can be exchanged at the "Sylvan store," where pupils trade their accumulated tokens for such goodies as Super GoBots, giant sunglasses...
...Well. He liked to fish. Sunday mornings I'd drive him to the creek and sit and watch. Wouldn't fish none myself, though. Didn't know how. I'd just sit there, with my bottle, and sometimes fall asleep. It was nice, I guess. You didn't have to do nothing. Once we saw this little girl fishing across the water from us. She was a pretty thing, and my boy couldn't take his eyes off her. There was a woman on the shore of the creek behind her. She wasn't fishing, though. Not this lady...
...then Ari Silberman volunteered the kind of information that would have knocked old Grease Monkey Buchanan's hat in the creek. She said she was an investment banker, and that her work would pull her away from the show early. She had to be with clients in Scotland the following morning, to fish for salmon along the Tweed. And on Wednesday she had to be in Paris, to put together a deal for a mobile bureau de change to be operated out of armored cars...