Word: elys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotels and restaurants are desperate for some well-heeled visitors. Along the Cardo, a rebuilt Roman boulevard in the Old City, ten of the 18 shops have closed; others have had to slash prices to attract customers. "My sales are off 80% because I sell mainly to Americans," says Eli Heller, manager of a leather- apparel store. Grumbles Ruth Elkayam, a cashier at Tayelet restaurant: "It doesn't pay to open up in the morning. Our business is off by 90%, and instead of 40 workers we have 17." At the new Hyatt Regency, the management closed several floors...
Tebuthiuron, better known by the trade name Spike, is a herbicide used to get rid of mesquite from rangeland and brush from along utility power lines in the arid American Southwest. Made only by Eli Lilly, the giant Indianapolis chemical company, Spike attacks woody plants for up to three years. After searching for several years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture discovered that Spike not only kills weeds but may be the first effective herbicide against the hardy coca plant, the source of cocaine...
Before Harvard's present winning streak, Yale had won the race for four straight years. Previous to the Eli string, the Crimson had taken 17 straight races from...
Yale finished the season with five losses. "We definitely feel we are the number two crew in the country," Eli oarsman Struan Robertson said...
Julian Rios, 17, of Miami, feels much the same way, having been embraced by all five of the top colleges he applied to. Two weeks ago, a "go Eli" call from a Yale alumnus was interrupted by a beep signaling a competing exhortation from Brown. Soon after, Brown asked Rios to join other acceptees on a chartered Amtrak train ride to the school, where a whirl of receptions awaited, as did a brass band...