Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love triangle about a promising young writer and two women on the leading edge of fashion and sexual mechanics. The setting is the coast of southern France during the mid-1920s. The sun is strong, the water clean, the food good and true. Best of all, the hotel Grau du Roi is a fine place to be a writer named David Bourne, honeymooning and working on a story of a youth and his father tracking a killer elephant in the African bush...
...boosting U.S. economic efficiency and growth. The bill's virtual abolition of tax shelters, for example, could stop the flow of investment capital into ventures that deliberately lose money to create tax breaks. The Senate committee's bill "is certainly the best version we have seen thus far," observed Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson. Said Robert Beck, chairman of the Prudential insurance company: "I could take that - bill and run with it. It is a super approach...
...cost of polyethylene has gone up about 3 cents a lb." Executives at the floor-coverings division of Dan River Inc., in Greenville, S.C., are less than elated with the results of the oil-price drop. The fibers that the company uses come from such petrochemical giants as Du Pont and Monsanto. So far, says Frank Loftin, a Dan River marketing vice president, the prices of those materials have not dropped...
...house art on the walls, and sculpture that looks as if it belongs at an after- hours club on Easter Island. Jewelry resembles a collection of body ornaments from some lost tribe out of H. Rider Haggard--adornment for young natives swacked on pop culture who listen to Husker Du and go to art openings the way uptowners might check out the 8 o'clock movie...
...doctors from the French volunteer group Medecins du Monde said they were among 2500 persons detained by the South African police. They were beaten with whips and saw the police walk among hundreds of Black detainees, kicking and whipping them...According to the doctors, the terror of Wednesday night was `unimaginable..."' (The Boston Globe, March 31, 1986, "Terror in South Africa...