Word: leafed
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Most fun are the odd couplings of people and events. Julia Child talks about riding in her family's first automobile, circa 1920. Frank Zappa recalls hiding under the bed during blackouts in World War II. Senator Bill Bradley reveals that he once plucked a leaf from Elvis' Graceland estate while on a Boy Scout trip to Memphis. Dick Clark reminisces about his brother's death at the Battle of the Bulge...
...only black in the 1967 graduating class, and for a year at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Conception, Mo. Remembering his childhood as he spoke to reporters in Kennebunkport, Thomas choked up so much that he could barely get through the remarks scrawled in ink on a sheet of loose-leaf paper. "I thank all of those who have helped me along the way . . . especially my grandparents, my mother and the nuns, all of whom were adamant that I grow up to make something of myself...
...this really a surprise? -- lawn owners are hearing from environmental activists what common sense has been telling them for some time. The herbicides and insecticides they spread on their lawns are poisons. They can be deadly, the charge goes, not only to the noxious bugs and broad-leaf weeds they are supposed to kill but also to useful bugs, to the earthworms that aerate the soil and to pets and people. Do-it-yourselfers don't read warning labels or take precautions to protect themselves, and they use up to six times as much pesticide per acre as farmers...
General Motors is also taking a leaf from its profitable European division's book by pruning the company's top-heavy white-collar staff and streamlining - manufacturing operations. GM plans to eliminate 15,000 salaried positions by 1993, or 15% of the white-collar work force. At the same time, GM has assigned more than 100 engineers to the delicate task of improving the company's prickly relations with its army of suppliers...
...member Cabinet. The new Prime Minister, Saadoun Hammadi, formerly deputy PM, is a Shi'ite and, within the context of the ruling Baath Party, is considered a moderate. But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid, has kept his job. "The Cabinet is window dressing," says a U.S. government expert on Iraq. "It doesn't make any decisions anyway...