Word: diapers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little too resounding a triumph of hope over experience. It can be argued, however, that a picture that confronts the ordinary bedevilments of middle-class life as honorably as this one does has earned the right to a little happiness. Besides, it's always better to change a diaper than to curse the darkness...
...want to find 11 or 12 infants being taken care of in a basement by people who don't wash their hands after they change a diaper. We have to have minimal standards," Kildee says...
...development was touted as the breakthrough of the decade in the baby-care industry: superabsorbency in a thinner diaper. Procter & Gamble successfully test-marketed a diaper containing wood-pulp fluff and gel materials in 1984 and soon afterward brought Ultra Pampers on the market. Before long, Kimberly- Clark introduced a competing product, Huggies Supertrim. Last week both types of diapers were on display in a federal court in Charleston, S.C., where K-C is being sued for allegedly violating P&G's patent on its superabsorbency design...
...trial is a high-stakes duel between the two leaders in the $3.3 billion- a-year disposable-diaper business. P&G has about 47% and K-C 30% of the market. P&G wants its rival to stop manufacturing the superabsorbent Huggies. In its defense, K-C contends that it discovered the technology from its manufacture of tampons and adult diapers...
...hashish," recalls Miami Customs supervisory inspector Robert Hessler. Some couriers have been found with contraband stuffed in body orifices, others with cocaine-filled condoms in their stomachs. "Nothing is beyond what people will do," says Los Angeles Customs director John Heinrich, "even putting drugs in a baby's diaper and carrying the child through...