Word: fallings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favorite recipe can bring grunts of disapproval from family and friends. For a food company, such tampering invites an even greater disaster: plummeting sales. Today, though, food manufacturers are busily reformulating some of their most popular products. Early this month, Keebler became the fourth major company since last fall -- joining Pepperidge Farm, Kellogg and Sunshine Biscuits -- to announce a switch in ingredients. The change: replacing highly saturated tropical oils with less saturated fats...
Consumer advocates have been campaigning in recent years to get companies to eliminate tropical oils. Last fall Phil Sokolof, founder of the National Heart Savers Association, fired the strongest salvo yet in the ongoing battle. He began placing full-page ads in leading newspapers lambasting U.S. food processors for "the Poisoning of America" and featuring photos of their offending products. Sokolof, 66, a building-materials manufacturer in Omaha who suffered a heart attack 22 years ago, has spent $2 million so far on his crusade. Says he: "People feel like they have been deceived by the food companies." Sokolof points...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein revisits the rise and fall of principle among baby boomers, and star Joan Allen makes the stereotypes come touchingly alive, off-Broadway...
...past budgets. While Democrats dismissed the Reagan document as "irrelevant," since President-elect Bush plans to submit a revised version by Feb. 20, the incoming Administration is unlikely to embrace a tax increase until it becomes an unavoidable compromise. Along with his broad "read my lips" pledge during the fall campaign, Bush specifically ruled out a higher gasoline levy...
...bringing American-style education to Japan. In 1982 Temple University became the first U.S. school to establish a branch campus in Japan. In a new nine-story Tokyo building financed by a separate Japanese board, some 1,600 Japanese students attend classes taught in English by Temple professors. Last fall Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business followed suit with Japan's first-ever English-language M.B.A. program. More than 40 other institutions, including Texas A & M and M.I.T., are negotiating similar deals. "The Japanese lack preparedness for globalization," says Chikara Higashi, president of Temple University Japan. "These institutions...