Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educated at Andover and Yale before going to the war in 1917 after which he returned to the West to be with his lumber trade and sawmills and remembrances of Latin Poetry and New Haven and Since his Home burned down in town he lived flippantly in a Flop House down the street with his Yale education and his small senilities while the people in the Utah Cafe had Daughters with piano teachers and though he was queer cause he didn't shave and smoked the last acts of his cigarettes in a black holder...
...company has spent generously on drug research for two decades, but its first really promising product, an oral flu-preventive pill called Symmetrel, has been a commercial flop since it was introduced in 1967. Reason: Du Pont lacked both expertise and a sales force for drug marketing, and one result was that doctors generally did not prescribe it. Corfam, the first synthetic leather to "breathe," cost $60 million to get into production in 1964, but quick and stiff competition has made it only barely profitable. Du Pont is now improving the versatility of Corfam-in order to expand...