Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year on things horticultural. Once they have poured all the money they can into their homes, cash-flush yuppies have found that a garden can soak up limitless discretionary income. After seeds and dirt, there are goatskin gloves and Garden Weasels, wide- throated anvil pruners from Rolcut of England, not to mention $15,000 for a Sargent weeping hemlock tree. The yuppies quickly master the rituals and floral lore, swap compost recipes at dinner parties. Mulching has become elevator talk...
...some estimates, can boost the value of real estate by 7% to 15%. Young anglophiles hope that a wanton English garden with piles of ivy and wisteria will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone dogs with baskets in their mouths, gates, bird feeders, Gothic porches and dovecotes...
...adult seals' immune systems have been weakened by chemical pollutants in the water, making them susceptible to pneumonia induced by a herpes-type virus. Such ravaging of a seal population is not unprecedented: a flu virus, for example, killed more than 500 harbor seals along the coast of New England from Cape Cod, Mass., to Maine over a period of ten months beginning in December 1979. This time, researchers believe, the deadly virus may have originated in slaughterhouse refuse deposited in open dumps along Sweden's western coast. It may then have been transmitted by sea gulls to the seal...
...fire-breathing evangelical preacher. The lad eventually tastes a Christmas pudding, strictly forbidden by his father's severe regimen, is punished and rebels. He leaves home, settles in with the local Anglican minister, and eventually enters Oriel College, Oxford, to study < for holy orders in the Church of England. Unfortunately, no one has seen fit to pay his way -- not his impoverished adoptive father and certainly not his real one, who views an Oxford education as "sending his only son into the everlasting hellfire." Oscar's financial salvation comes when a well-to-do classmate looking for company knocks...
...assigned projects that will benefit the company as a whole. Some of the facilities may work on a particular engine, while others may design and engineer common platforms -- the suspension and other undercarriage components -- for an entire family of autos. Ford of Europe, which has its headquarters in Brentwood, England, has been delegated to develop platforms for all three of Ford's compacts: the Tempo, the Topaz and the European Sierra model. At the same time, a team at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., is working on platforms for a new generation to replace the midsize Taurus and Sable...