Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago: 'Those two products are absolutely the biggest the industry has ever seen." Shipments of Cabbage Patch Kids and ancillary licensed products, including a board game, storybooks, decals and patches, will reach $1 billion in 1984. More than a year after they appeared and despite the fact hat Coleco, their manufacturer, does not even advertise them, the dolls are still in short supply. That does not hurt sales; in fact, it helps. Says Margaret Preble, a sociology instructor in Virginia: "The shortage gives implied status to those who can get a doll." An official of Toys "R" Us says...
...code name for the Colombia operation was Hat Trick. The plan was to deploy dozens of Coast Guard and Navy vessels across a wide sweep of the Caribbean to intercept the huge shipments of marijuana that are transported from Colombia to the U.S. at the conclusion of the pot harvest in November and December. The elaborate strategy called for Colombian soldiers to move against marijuana traffickers in the Guajira Peninsula, between the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean. With Venezuelan and Panamanian soldiers guarding their respective borders, the smugglers would be forced to ship out the marijuana...
...word of Hat Trick began leaking almost as soon as the plan was launched about four weeks ago. Federal officials said last week that while the scheme had been "modestly successful," American and Colombian press reports had helped warn drug traffickers of the supposedly clandestine operation. Bad weather may have hurt the operation by delaying the harvest and the shipments. Nevertheless, Operation Hat Trick will continue...
...guess Billy Packer's hat size...
...American television crews were lying in wait outside the exclusive Sovietskaya Hotel last week, when the frumpy woman in fur hat and buttoned-up coat appeared in the company of a burly escort. Since Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, 58, returned to Moscow last month after 17 years in exile in the West, she has been playing hide-and-seek with Western reporters. She reacted in anger to the latest ambush. "I am not going to talk to you, not one word," she snapped. "You have no right. You are uncivilized people. You are savages." When asked about...