Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statistics did little to cheer Procter & Gamble, whose 30-year-old Duncan Hines line was being hit particularly hard. Two days after the New Jersey warning, company officials recalled Duncan Hines blueberry mix, lot number 3294W4, from stores in Iowa. At Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters, executives complained that Duncan Hines was getting an unfairly large share of media attention...
Saying that it is better to "err on the side of caution," New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean last week ordered all boxes of Duncan Hines Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix bearing lot number 3116C2A removed from grocery-store shelves throughout his state. Kean's move came just 24 hours after New Jersey health officials found that a box from lot 3116C2A contained 470 parts per billion of the cancer-causing pesticide EDB, roughly three times the recommended federal limit. The Governor urged consumers who found boxes at home bearing the suspect number to "return them...
...across the U.S., food manufacturers feared that the pesticide scare could decimate sales of their products. Environmental Protection Agency officials said that high levels of the chemical had been detected in at least some of the products of most major food manufacturers in the U.S. Some states, like New Jersey, recalled contaminated baking mixes and destroyed tainted oranges, while others, such as Texas and Ohio, adopted federal guidelines. Massachusetts imposed more stringent standards than those handed down by Washington. It is estimated that this will add $100 million to the $1.1 billion that consumers in that state spend annually...
Over those same four years, the icewomen have been improving, but they have never been able to catch the New Jersey powerhouse in Ivy play...
...Princeton women's ice hockey team hammered home its mastery of Harvard, scoring a 5-1 victory over the Crimson in New Jersey yesterday afternoon...