Word: lawn
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According to the police account, a witness called the station at 4:13 p.m. Thursday to report the fire, which engulfed maintenance equipment, including lawn mowers, tractors, aerators and sprinklers stored in the area...
...victory the PPP achieved is because of the selfless sacrifices, the struggle by people of the PPP," Bhutto said at a news conference after a rally of 8,000 people on the lawn of her family home in the southern city of Larkana...
Sweeping into the Air France storeroom at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. Customs agents recently seized $50,000 in gold and 15 tons of merchandise, mostly small shipments of videocassette recorders, lawn chairs, cameras and even a video-game system. The intended destination: Viet Nam, which since 1975 has been on the U.S. embargo list for all but humanitarian goods. Yet no one was arrested. The raid, said a Customs spokesman, was meant only to "send a message to those who would blatantly violate...
...needs of its far-flung divisions. Some 1,100 units of U.S. companies have been acquired by their managers since 1982, and it is a blue-chip list: the Montgomery Ward department-store chain, bought by its executives from Mobil; the former ITT subsidiary that makes Scott lawn products; the onetime Unisys unit that produces Nu-kote ribbons for typewriters and computer printers. "Management buyouts create powerful incentives for entrepreneurship, risk taking and long-term planning," says Martin Dubilier, chairman of a New York City investment firm that bankrolls many executives seeking control of their companies...
...Scott & Sons of Marysville, Ohio. "There was no great push for excellence." But after Seitz and his fellow managers bought the unit in 1986 for $133 million, they promptly came out with several new products that ITT executives had blocked. Among them: Winterizer, a compound that protects lawns during the winter. ITT management, Seitz says, had feared that Winterizer might sabotage sales of other Scott lawn-care products. But it has become the company's second biggest seller without hurting overall revenues a whit: Scott's sales rose 16% last year, to $187 million, and are expected...