Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campbell received a tepid response to its new instant soup. The product was a single serving of highly concentrated soup to which the consumer added boiling water. As it happened, this was scarcely more instant than Campbell's regular soup, to which a consumer simply adds water or milk and then boils. General Foods stirred a short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed the granules too fast would get a stomachful of carbonation...
...money is the mother's milk of politics, two well-suckled races are under way in Oklahoma and New York. Tulsa Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is being targeted by a heavily financed Republican effort. Manhattan's Bill Green has met a match as rich as he: Andrew Stein...
Remember back in 1975 when your grade school teacher said that in 10 years all Americans would be using the metric system. Well, the nation is just a few months away from the government's projected completed conversion date of January 1985 and supermarkets are still selling milk by the gallon...
...exploration it starts out as, because the impetus for evil stems from external factors. It is chilling to watch neighborhood kids ignite Jennifer's car with gasoline, but the incident somehow loses its impact when we discover that their action comes as the result of a carton of contaminated milk. In this light as well, the film's political plugs for environmentalism detracts from its force as a psychological thriller...
...adopted a sharper speaking style. He often denounces Reagan for "official cruelty" in cutting Government social programs. In his U.S.C. speech, he recalled that Reagan had opposed the 1963 test-ban treaty, and declared: "If Mr. Reagan had had his way, our children would be drinking milk with strontium 90." This line has its dangers: it sometimes sounds slightly whiny, and it veers perilously close to the kind of ad hominem attack on a highly popular President that could backfire. Mondale has also flubbed his remarks; at a rally in Birmingham, he said "Mr. America" instead of "Mr. Reagan...