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Word: fountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Gillette is a monstrous international conglomerate with plants from Johannesburg to Munich. The company does over $2 billion dollars of business every year, selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and razors division: the action end of the shaving process accounts for one third of Gillette's total sales and two thirds of its profit. The company dominates the U.S. shaving market supplying 60 percent of the country's blades and 70 percent of its razors--that's 1.3 billion blade...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Where the World Learns to Shave | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...center of the park will be marked by a large granite fountain. A pedestrian corridor will connect the three-lined area with Harvard Square via the K--School and the Charles Hotel...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Kennedys Dedicate JFK Park | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

...name of a drink, it gives the idea that you are going there specifically to drink," said Meier. "And by requiring that an 'equally attractive' non-alcoholic beverage be served, they mean they don't want someone at a frat party saying 'Okay, there's the water fountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Quarters' Quartered; 'Thumper' Thumped | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

Caryl R. Johnson & Associates of Cambridge will be the landscape design consultants for the project. The park will have trees and grass with a central overflowing fountain pool and granite sitting area. The sycamores already standing in the area will be left intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Construction Nears on JFK Park | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

...believe that this epidemic may well be the most serious epidemic in recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school. What about somebody sneezing in the classroom? What about the water fountain? What about kids who get in a fight with a bloody nose? They don't know!" The crowd screamed and stomped. Cried Schmidt: "We should not experiment with our children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Untouchables | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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