Word: loads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began selling Cover Girl cosmetics in supermarkets, drugstores and discount centers rather than department stores. It also successfully went its own way by marketing a Limited number of shades for four basic Cover Girl products: lipstick, nail polish, eye makeup and facial makeup. Noxell's competitors usually load up store shelves with a bewildering array of choices. Noxell's policy allows it to hold down costly inventories. According to a report by Merrill Lynch, "Cover Girl has the fastest inventory turnover at retail of any major cosmetics Line...
Elsewhere, universities are taking steps to cut the work load and make classes more interesting. At Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the amount of time that students spend in the classroom has been reduced by 15%, and more outside exercises and research projects have been introduced instead. At Northwestern, faculty members have been experimenting with more imaginative teaching techniques. Professor James Garvin, for instance, now spikes his biochemistry lectures with a "case of the week," such as scurvy or nerve-gas poisoning, to make the subject seem less dry and abstract...
...Pepper says, "I would rather live with $200 billion deficits and have more people living, than the reverse." This sounds compassionate, but Congressman Pepper and many of his constituents will be dead when the time comes to pay the $200 billion. One generation does not have the right to load its debts on the backs of future generations...
...budget 10song album is an expensive proposition. Several major label representatives said the sales of an independent release, or a popular local reputation demonstrated by prestigious bookings or significant radio airplay tend to catch their eyes. Several managers at the conference were trying to load the dice by delivering tapes, or announcements of New York club dates, to the four big-time representatives on the major label panel...
...than students at any other Ivy League university, will eagerly tell you about the Directed Studies program for which Yale is academically reknowned. Students in the program--referred to by some of its participants as "Directed Suicide"--write a paper a week in addition to maintaining a heavy course load...