Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clink, clink, clink. My fellow champagne makers, may I have your attention? Let us raise our glasses to 1984, the best year in our history, and to the U.S. consumer, who has developed a passion for our product! Our noble wine has now become mother's milk for yuppies...
...clear from watching Ben Halley Jr. and John Bottoms milk every metaphysical nugget of relevance out of this 1956 script that "Endgame" does not wear well in the postmodern and post-Cold War age. "Endgame," even more than the 1953 "Waiting for Godot," is a product of that decade, innovative for its time, but now hackneyed and cliched three decades after The Big Fear first osmotically seeped its way into the popular psyche...
...Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, showed or purported to show that "functional music" in a workplace reduced absenteeism by 88% and early departures by 53%. Other tests produced even richer results. When The Blue Danube was piped into a dairy in McKeesport, Pa., the cows gave more milk; recordings inspired chickens to lay more eggs. The coming of World War II made this more than a matter of money: thousands of U.S. factories, arsenals and shipyards were wired for music and increased production by as much...
Predictably, the announcement touched off a national wave of panic buying and hoarding. As soon as it became apparent that prices on 90% of the nation's output would be allowed to float, such products as fish, milk and woolens either became more costly or vanished in some parts of China. Eggs, which had been in plentiful supply, disappeared from state-run stores; they remained available, but expensive, on the free market...
...obliged to make cost of living adjustments on the remaining two-thirds of the allowance but will be unable to raise prices during this period. Thus both labor and management will feel the squeeze. One problem arose when the Histadrut demanded to know whether such government-subsidized goods as milk, bread and public transportation would be included in the price freeze. The government thought it over and said they would...