Word: diaperer
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...from an overdose. At about the same time in Haiti, millions of dollars' worth of poorly aimed cocaine packages fell upon an isolated farming village. The natives tried to make the mysterious substance into a whitewash for their huts but discovered it worked better as a foot powder and diaper-rash treatment. They began selling it for about $50 a kilogram (actual wholesale value: $30,000 per kg) until police heard about their windfall and carted away what was left of the drug...
...company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati-based detergent and disposable-diaper king, and Pfizer, a New York pharmaceutical firm, rode to the rescue with identical $69-a-share offers. P & G reportedly won the deal because its lawyers got the paperwork done faster...
...Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad in an infant's diaper, and writing a 1,500-page treatise on the 99 names...
...minute I moved into the house, I was intimidated. As a teenager, I had earned money babysitting; but I usually let the kids watch television until they dozed off. In this case, the baby spent her time eating, crawling aound the floor, chewing on various things, wetting her diaper, and sleeping. The two-and-a-half-year old never sat still. She either wanted to go to the playground, draw pictures, or play on the computer. At the playground, I slid down the slide with her, and told her not to cry when her doll got dizzy...
...beat the world's best. The smart money says no. According to Fischler, "Our defense can probably handle the physical part, but when the Russians start their razzle-dazzle checkerboard game, they could psych our young guys out and drive them crazy." Others argue that beyond the Diaper Line, the U.S. team does not have the scoring punch to stay competitive on offense. "Maybe so," says Vairo. "But a lot of the same things were said in 1980, and look what happened. I'm still a believer in dreams. And in my dreams, we win." -By Richard Corliss...