Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Powell < himself. The Philadelphia Inquirer published an impressively detailed report that for at least 18 months the police had been working up contingency assault plans and studying the Move bunker in photographic blowups. For weeks and possibly months, the paper said, police had been secretly testing various explosives, including Du Pont's Tovex TR-2, which was later used in the attack. While Sambor stuck to his contention that tests showed no reason to suppose Tovex would cause a fire, the Inquirer cited technical lore from Du Pont stating that a detonation would produce heat of from 3,000 degrees...
...aircraft killing the coconut trees that provided the main source of their income. Vo Van Canh, 49, a former Viet Cong, points to his 17-year-old son, who has the arrested development of a two-year-old, the result, says Vo, of dioxin poisoning. At the Tu Du Women's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc says her studies, though not conclusive, suggest that women exposed to the defoliants have 15 times as many fetal deaths as those who were not exposed...
Anyone wishing to forego the entrees du jour in the 1700s had to ask the president's permission to do so. "Bok would be a pretty busy fellow, wouldn't he," says Walcott...
...Du Pont, like several other corporate giants, has been trimming its payroll because of increased productivity brought about by computers and other modern efficiencies. The company estimated that the retirement plan would cost $125 million in 1985 but could save $225 million in 1986. Yet the popularity of the program may cost more than expected. The company has had to offer bonuses to valued employees to keep them...
...first trip to Britain. "I love it. I love it. It's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's perfect." "It's great, it's just great. We're not sleeping at all," says Carol Arend, a French teacher from Clarkston, Mich., as she sips a drink on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. In the four days since she arrived with a group of 35 students and teachers, she has done Chartres, the Loire valley chateaux, a champagne cellar near Reims, and the Eiffel Tower. Still ahead: the Louvre, Fontainebleau and a ballet...