Word: lube
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal setting to let your mind and vocal cords wander into the postmodern recesses of the human condition, before you get out of here and have to deal with things like does the toaster work and paying the insurance bill and taking the car to the Jiffy Lube...
...contract and threw their support to the I.A.M. members, asserting that the airline's fleet could not be safely maintained during a mechanics' walkout. Said John Bavis, head of Eastern's pilots' union: "What's Lorenzo going to do with 225 airplanes? Take them down to the local Jiffy Lube...
...initially, anyhow. The record business is primed for another monster hit. The great pop-culture dream machine needs the kind of lube job only an icon like Jackson can deliver. With advance orders of 2 million, there will be a lot of Bad around, and it is useless to resist...
...consumer. A confessed "popcorn freak," he savored the brand made by Golden Valley Microwave Foods, and so he bought the company's stock. It has gone up nearly 70% in value during the past year. In another instance, Determan was so impressed with the service at Jiffy Lube International, a franchised auto-service chain, that he bought 3,000 shares at 9 1/2. Current price...
...supposed to be a warning has turned into a marketing tool." Teens who stay up past 8 p.m. can watch R-rated films on pay cable, and at midnight, Manhattan minors can watch Robin Byrd, the G- stringed host and self-described "X-rated Ed Sullivan" of Manhattan's lube tube. "My show is for adults," she says. "If children watch it, it's because parents aren't doing their job." So it would seem. In 1985 Manhattan Cable (a subsidiary of Time Inc.) offered its 228,000 subscribers the option of a "lock box" so parents could scramble Channel...