Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally scheduled to take place on the new North House terrace, the party was relocated to a patch of grass at the southern end of the Quad, because the terrace is under construction and off-limits to students. The rest of the lawn is still a giant mud hole and mountain...
Money-back guarantees have long been used to promote mail-order kitchen knives or lawn trimmers, but now that classic gimmick is helping sell a most unlikely product: prescription drugs. G.D. Searle -- best known for introducing the first birth-control pill and NutraSweet, the widely used sugar substitute -- is offering full refunds to customers who find the company's medications ineffective or experience unpleasant side effects. All a patient has to do is fill out a postcard-size form with information about where the drug was bought and how much it cost, and attach the sales receipt. The patient...
...partner in the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, the dream house has become a reality. He and his wife and two young daughters moved into their new home in McLean, Va., last month, just as the first grass began to peep through on their newly seeded front lawn. Their dwelling, though, is more than just a cozy little nest in the suburbs. The Reids' Colonial-style house has 15 rooms, including four bedrooms, a library and an exercise center. Stereo music can be piped into each room, and, using infrared remote-control devices, the family can operate the sound...
...crash and sighing of the sea. Behind, tall redwoods climbing up the mountainside. Off to one side, hot mineral baths laid down on ground once sacred to the local Indians. And out in the distance, along the blue horizons, the spouting of a distant whale. There, on a sunlit lawn high above the sea, a score of visitors assemble at first light. Retired schoolteachers, lay therapists, dentists from Ohio -- all move their limbs slowly, to the sound of a flute, through the Tai Chi motions of fire, water and gold...
...Detroit, one of the hottest items is a $2 button of John Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick Kline, of Los Angeles' Front Row Center Ticket Service...