Word: glue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...projection of the lyrics on screens beside the stage helps the audience focus on the importance of what exactly the actors are mouthing but is admittedly distracting. With no dialogue, except for Brenneman's narration and one brief and painful incident of normal speech, the lyrics have to glue the show together and they...
...STRONGER GLUE and tighter seals will not help. As the chairman of Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol, conceded, "No package is tamper-proof." The problem is not package design, but cultural design. To appropriate the hackneyed cry of the gun lobby--tainted pills don't kill people, people kill people...
Many legislators feel that new taxes are the only hope for true deficit reduction. Says New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, head of the Senate Budget Committee: "Taxes can be the glue that puts that package together." The leading candidate is an oil import fee, which if combined with taxes on energy consumption could raise as much as $30 billion a year. There would be minimum pain to consumers, since the new taxes would only offset the recent plunge in oil prices...
What do yeast, egg white and fish glue have in common? They are ingredients of some wines, though a customer would not realize it from reading the labels on the bottles. Thinking that people should know what they are drinking, Federal Judge John Pratt ruled in Washington last week that beer, wine and liquor manufacturers must begin revealing ingredients by April...
...suffered from epilepsy and strokes. His wife died of cancer. To support himself he had to do tourist views and kitsch portraits in the Lake District village where, at 60, he died. But he never stopped working, and what a friend called the distinctive "Schwitters aroma"--an amalgam of glue, flour paste and guinea pigs, the portable pets of his exile--followed him to the end of his days...