Word: flints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AIDS breeds panic and paranoia wherever it strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
Prehistoric man, a history of shaving relates, shaved with clams and animal teeth, or pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century...
...sober gray suits, button-down shirts and striped ties. He rarely smiles, but when he does, the grin spreads slowly, almost reluctantly, across his face. Says a friend: "He deals with everyone, from Senators to bank presidents, as if he's telling them fishing stories." Yet he can be flint hard. Told of a worker who had been laid off after having given 30 years to his company, Pickens snapped, "Given? Didn't he get paid...
...Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr., would benefit financially from the company's construction of a $300 million office tower in Chicago. As a result, Mobil announced last week that it will no longer have "anything to do with the Wall Street Journal." Said John Flint, a Mobil spokesman: "Specifically we will not answer their questions, on or off the record, provide them with any data or grant any interviews." Mobil, an account worth $500,000 so far this year, said it was pulling all its advertising out of the paper...
...U.A.W. walkout would hurt the industrial states of the Rust Bowl. Despite attempts to diversify into new industries, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri are still heavily dependent on the auto industry. Michigan factory towns like Pontiac and Flint, now enduring unemployment rates of 18.8% and 12.4%, respectively, could suffer an economic earthquake. Steel, rubber and glass producers could lose their biggest customer. GM, for example, buys about 10% of all the steel produced in the U.S. Sales in stores and restaurants are likely to slip when striking workers stay home, and tax revenues will slide...