Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sprague said Advent could have remained in Cambridge by purchasing land at $2 per square foot in Kendall Square, but he added that such a purchase would have required the corporation to construct a multi-story building on the property. "A single-story facility is a hell of a lot more efficient," he said...
...boss, "Martinez," has five divers working for him. He cuts the coke by 50% with borax, a cheap powder that adds a lot of weight but nothing else to the once pure coke. At each stage of dealing, the coke will be cut with substances such as procaine, lactose or?for an extra buzz ?amphetamines. When finally consumed, it may be no more than 10% pure. Martinez deals only with people he knows well. It is up to these additional middlemen, who know the right artists and hairdressers and doormen, to push it further toward the users...
...either lost money or barely made a profit in every subsequent year. One reason is that A&P elected to close stores one by one in 36 states, with the result that it did not get the distribution savings of quitting an entire region. The cutbacks also left a lot of spare capacity at A & P's private-label, Ann Page food-processing plants...
...other divorce counselors estimate that 15% to 20% of their cases now end in joint custody. That percentage is likely to grow. Predicts Susan Whicher, a Boulder, Colo., lawyer who heads the American Bar Association's special committee on joint custody: "Legally it's terrifying for a lot of lawyers and judges, but by the end of the 1980s it will be the rule rather than the exception...
...some of the explosive talent: Jerome Robbins' The Four Seasons, set to snippets of Verdi ballet music, most of it from I Vespri Siciliani. There is nothing very deep here, but the work is a flashy hit. Ballet, like opera, is a virtuoso art. There are a lot of high Cs for the young dancers who portray the seasons of the year, and for Baryshnikov the scale steps up to paradise...