Word: lemons
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...book glows, holographic, with an unearthly halo, so that the precise details of lemon groves and white walls, dirty linoleum stairs, and blue velvet all hold the threat of profound poetry...
...turnaround at Tarrytown grew out of the realization by local management and union representatives that inefficiencies and industrial strife threatened the plant's continued operation. Automakers sometimes use forced plant closings caused by sluggish auto sales to unload a lemon facility. Ford, for example, decided two weeks ago to shut the gates of its huge Mahwah, N. J., plant largely because it had a poor quality record. After Tarrytown lost a truck production facility in 1971, bosses and workers became fearful for their jobs and got together to find better ways to build cars. At first hesitantly but later...
...economic ills that demand hard choices. The outlook for 1980, as set forth in the message: recession. After growing by a paltry .8% in 1979, the nation's output of goods and services is expected to decline this year by 1%. Administration officials tried to turn that lemon into lemonade by wistfully predicting that the slump "would be largely over by midyear." But that may prove optimistic...
...Meryl, "was Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove, with Beverly Sills. It was incredible to see her onstage. Until then, I thought she was just a nice lady who had the lesson before me." One morning Meryl got up, squashed her glasses underfoot, put peroxide and lemon juice on her hair and set out to be "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout." Boys quickly appeared, and so did a high school teacher determined to build musicals around Meryl's singing. During her freshman year, she made her first appearance onstage as Marian in The Music...
Winter is descending on the Iraqi capital, or so they claim in the coffeehouses on Saadun Street, even though the afternoon temperature hovers above 90°. After comments on the weather, conversations with leather-faced Iraqi peasants, sipping lemon tea or sweet Turkish coffee, or with natty young chain-smoking bureaucrats from nearby ministries turn these days to politics. That means the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein, who has moved decisively to strengthen his grip on the country...