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ETHYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...
...cost about $1,000. Raskin code-named the machine Macintosh, misspelling the name of his favorite kind of apple. Working with just two others in cramped offices near Apple's headquarters, Raskin tried to make the Macintosh as easy to use as a television set or any other household appliance...
...Hirsch formed Telerate to track the prices of volatile commercial paper, corporate IOUs that are issued by such companies as General Motors, Sears and Household Finance, and send them electronically to customers' video terminals. Some 11,000 subscribers in the U.S. and overseas pay an average of $700 per month for the service. In April, when Telerate went public, Hirsch held shares worth $67.5 million...
Thanks to Miss Piggy's decision to pose for The Mona Piga [Dec. 12], our name has become a household word. For years, my mother-in-law collected her paycheck under the name Biga. My husband's name was printed Pica on our wedding invitation, and our charge account was under the name Pizza. Vous can blow Miss Piggy a kiss for us Pigas...
...Salvadoran death squads, or set the timers for the I.R.A. One sees their work-the almost daily deposits of bodies in the roads of Central America, for example. Or, in London, the innocent blown up to make an awful noise for Irish unity-horses of the Queen's Household Cavalry blasted while on parade, or Christmas shoppers at Harrods department store...