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...Ford and other manufacturers with large blue-collar work forces have discovered that drug dealers offer virtually an alternative cafeteria service in their plants. Instead of meat loaf, macaroni and apple pie, the choices are marijuana, hashish, cocaine and amphetamines. For Cherry Electrical Products, a semiconductor and electrical-equipment manufacturer near Chicago, the seamy side of company life came to light in October 1984, when two employees were arrested late one evening for selling marijuana to an undercover policeman. President Peter Cherry then discovered that drugs were being peddled in the company's stock room. One woman employee with...
...snail shell? Have any shapes become so unfashionable that they are being phased out? What will the newly increased U.S. tariff (from less than 1% of value to 40%) do to the price of imported pasta? And, finally, how do they get the holes through the tubes of macaroni...
What currently makes importers and retailers shudder is the tariff increase imposed by presidential proclamation last summer and instituted on Nov. 1. The American taste for Italian macaroni is on the rise; sales have grown from 10 million lbs. in 1975 to 110 million lbs. a year now. Even so, that accounts for only 4% of 2.3 billion lbs. of pasta eaten annually in this country. The tariff increase reflects U.S. resentment at the protective duty Europeans maintain on citrus imports from this country. This higher tariff means that consumers will pay 10% to 15% more than the current...
...pushes aside a garbage bag full of laundry and plonks down on a chair, warily eyeing the kitchen door. "It isn't paradise, but they don't go hungry. When I was a kid, I didn't eat the best either. I was raised on french fries and macaroni because that's what my mother could afford. I loved that stuff. I love it today. And I'm a healthy little woman. And macaroni is good. I say that because (she raises her voice deliberately to be heard in the next room) some of my kids with silver spoons...
Copley Place: Copley Plaza, Boston, 266-1300. Shoah: parts 1 & 2: 1:30, 7; Santa Claus: 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10, 10:15; Macaroni: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Return: 10, 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10; Back to the Future: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Agnes of God: 7:45, 9:45; Bad Medicine...