Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Drive, No Eat. Like many a suburban mother, Sue Fisher, who lives near Miami, pushes her Ford LTD station wagon about 400 miles a week?delivering her three children to school, picking them up again, visiting a bank, post office, supermarket and the home of her ailing mother. That's on weekdays; on Saturdays she chauffeurs her two sons to an art class at the University of Miami, takes one to a weekly orthodontist appointment and drives her daughter to dancing lessons. "I'm trying to conserve energy by saving trips," says Mrs. Fisher, "but the fuel shortage is going...
...tooth-studded closeup (3½p. and 20p.). Stamps issued for such far-flung corners of the Commonwealth as Aitutaki and the Pitcairn Islands displayed Anne and Mark with heads touching and happiness, as one newspaper put it, "welling from their smiles and expressions." For the occasion, the Courage Ltd. brewery issued a "royal wedding ale"-light in color, but extra strong...
Overt Step. The operation had been meticulously planned. According to police, the first overt step was taken two days before the breakout when a young man with an American accent, calling himself "Mr. Leonard," arranged to rent an Alouette II helicopter from Dublin's Irish Helicopters Ltd. It would be used, he explained, to photograph historical sites near Dublin...
...week's end, despite a massive police and army manhunt, the escapees had not been found. To add insult to injury, the daring jailbreak cost the I.R.A. not a penny. Irish Helicopters Ltd. had rented the Alouette to the mysterious "Mr. Leonard" without asking for any advance payment...
...doctors to prescribe drugs by their generic rather than their brand names, and the government has granted rival drug companies the right to copy patented drugs such as Librium and Valium if they pay a royalty to the developing firm. The remedies have had some effect: after Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd. came out with a copy of Valium called Atensine in 1971, Roche's British subsidiary cut its prices by 36%. Though the wholesale cost of a kilogram of Valium was lowered from about $5,000 to roughly $3,000, the government was not satisfied; late in the year...