Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than existing brands. Analyst Segalas, who studies every patent that P & G applies for, believes that the company will spring more surprises in the future. He thinks, for example, that P & G is working on a lowfat, low-calorie, low-cholesterol cookie that will taste good without causing tooth decay. For the moment, though, P & G will be urging Americans to eat sugar-filled Duncan Hines cookies-and brush regularly with its Crest toothpaste...
...ship pointedly christened Narcissus. The lure is also gastronomical: "The port of call determined the musical work, and the musical work determined the menu. These delicate musical relationships, hesitant at first, had bit by bit been transformed into invariable ritual, even if it occasionally happened that the sudden decay of a tournedos necessitated the replacement of Rossini by Mahler, and the tournedos by a Bavarian pot roast...
...enough to avoid the upper atmosphere's braking effects, it can orbit indefinitely, like the moon.) At times, in order to do closeup snooping, the Soviets let their satellites descend to as low as 100 miles, then boost them up with onboard rockets to prevent any further orbital "decay...
...from the original Adams elm, which is weak and declining. The old tree was the tallest and grandest on the White House grounds until it was hit by lightning in 1965 and lost one of its huge limbs. Another storm in 1976 battered the tree even more, and now decay has begun to eat at the 4½-ft. trunk. Its leaves, once deep green and dense, are thinning. They have fallen for the winter, and the likelihood is that next spring they will not regain even this year's reduced vigor. But the family will...
Despite the interior excitement and free-spending atmosphere, much of Atlantic City remains pocked with urban blight and decay. Worse, state officials are concerned about the infiltration of organized crime into the business and last week unsealed an indictment against several people, some of whom are thought to have Mafia ties, for tampering with slot machines at Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent...