Word: crowe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s, it was King to whom the nation looked during the successful reformist phase of the movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Protest, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were all major accomplishments for King, as he coordinated the downfall of Jim Crow segregation...
Ralph: It might be easier to remain single and just hire the help, beloved wife. For one thing, your plumber can't fine you if you develop crow's-feet or receding gums. Unless, of course, his work contract has a life-style clause prepared by Barnett...
...based on two fragmentary fossil skeletons found in the arid badlands of western Texas in 1984 by Texas Tech University Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee. They suggest that Protoavis was a contemporary of the earliest dinosaurs. "If the identification is correct," says Yale Paleobiologist John Ostrom, who has examined the crow-size remains, "it has to send us back to the drawing board...
...nothing has gone down quite so smoothly as an improbable hit called DeKuyper's Original Peachtree Schnapps, a liqueur that was introduced in 1984 by New York's National Distillers. The company, suffering from falling sales of its Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad bourbons, was looking for something more up- to-date when one of its researchers came up with the idea while trimming peach trees in his backyard. With almost no advertising, the low-alcohol (48 proof) cordial took off faster than any other liquor in the industry's history, selling almost 1.4 million cases in the first...
Hill & Knowlton often trumpets the triumphs of other companies, but last week the Manhattan firm had something of its own to crow about. Currently the second largest U.S. public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton announced that it would merge with No. 3 Carl Byoir to become No. 1 in p.r. (projected 1986 revenues: $125 million). The proposed $12 million acquisition, coming only two weeks after Hill & Knowlton bought the flourishing Gray and Co. in Washington, will oust Burson Marsteller from the industry's top spot...