Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Gillette is a monstrous international conglomerate with plants from Johannesburg to Munich. The company does over $2 billion dollars of business every year, selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and razors division: the action end of the shaving process accounts for one third of Gillette's total sales and two thirds of its profit. The company dominates the U.S. shaving market supplying 60 percent of the country's blades and 70 percent of its razors--that's 1.3 billion blade...
...surgeons. Several felt that the artificial heart, in its current form, is simply too crude and too risky to be widely used on a long-term basis. Tucson Surgeon Jack Copeland, who helped pioneer the use of an artificial heart as a temporary measure, judged the Jarvik-7 "a monstrous thing that does awful things to people." The longer it remains in a patient, he said, "the more likely you're going to have trouble...
...discussion." Charles threw a rock through the plate-glass window of modern architecture last year when he decried the sterility of much contemporary British design. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects, he castigated a proposed steel- and-glass addition to the National Gallery as "a monstrous carbuncle on the * face of a much-loved and elegant friend...
...Latin debtors needed more help than they were getting. It was hardly good policy to push austerity programs that fostered social unrest in Latin America at a time when the U.S. was fighting Communist- backed revolutionaries in the same area. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, contending that the monstrous debts pose a grave threat to South - America's democracies, has called for "the contemporary equivalent of the Marshall Plan." Kissinger praised Baker's plan as a "major departure," but cautioned, "I feel that the resources devoted to it are not adequate...
...truth, the President likes the former Massachusetts Congresswoman who has run the monstrous HHS (current budget: $316 billion) since 1983. His hand was forced by Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who detested Heckler's idiosyncratic management style. He and others complained about her lateness at Cabinet meetings, lack of preparation and indecisiveness. The Secretary's defenders praised her successes, like reducing Medicare cost inflation, and her efforts to protect the poor and elderly against budget cutters. Heckler will take up residence in Dublin early next year. Her departure leaves Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole as the lone woman Cabinet member...