Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have suspected-and Buscetta has now confirmed-Palermo has replaced Marseilles as the center of Europe's heroin business. Authorities estimate that some two tons of pure heroin (worth billions of dollars at street prices) are produced in Palermo each year from opium smuggled into Italy from the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Heroin can often be bought in New York City's Times Square 48 hours after it leaves Sicily...
...home town is so dull," goes the old gag, "that for excitement everybody goes down to McDonald's to watch the numbers on the sign change." McDonald's in recent years has been selling hamburgers so fast (140 per sec.) that many golden-arched signs state simply: BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SOLD. But that does not mean that McDonald's has lost count. Indeed, the Illinois-based company (1983 sales: $3.1 billion) disclosed last week that it will sell its 50 billionth hamburger some time late this month or in early November. The tally goes back...
...from the early '50s can seem faded and dull to viewers accustomed to color. Now computer technology offers a way to revise cinematic history. Two firms, Colorization of Toronto and Color Systems Technology of Los Angeles, have independently devised methods for turning black-and-white reels from the golden ages of television and Hollywood into so-called colorized videocassettes...
...last month as chairman of struggling Financial Corp. of America, a soft landing seemed likely. Last week it was learned that Knapp, whose high-risk growth strategy for the California-based savings and loan left the thrift holding too many unprofitable fixed-rate loans, had managed to secure a golden parachute from Financial Corp.'s board of directors in the form of a severance payment worth $2 million...
Lessing, 64, author of such works as The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first...