Word: john
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boogers, a gummy-type, fruit-flavored candy shaped like -- you guessed it -- the blobs that obstruct nasal passages. Since its introduction last year, the gross-out confection has grossed $2 million in sales (cost: 40 cents a pack). "It's the most successful introduction we've ever had," says John Sullivan of Confex, in Shrewsbury, N.J., which distributes Boogers. "It's quite a good candy," he unapologetically insists...
...crimes that never occurred. The classic example: when an alcoholic dies after a fight, the police often assume that the assault killed him, but a careful autopsy may show a lethal level of alcohol in the blood. Bungled investigations can also create lasting controversies. Mistakes in the autopsy of John F. Kennedy fueled charges of a conspiracy and cover...
...response was that Congress' failure to pass the pay raise made his job--which would have paid $120,000 under the proposed legislation--an $80,000 job. Small beans for someone who could likely be making over $100,000 elsewhere. And, he said, "Remember John Tower. Who wants to go through that scrutiny...
...Congress also dealt Bush the two biggest defeats of his early administration by rejecting the president's nominations of John Tower for secretary of defense and William Lucas for assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division...
...pilot did an outstanding job," Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson John Mogul said. "The pilot held the nose off the ground, then lowered the nose slowly to the runway...