Word: odorants
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...undercover reporters with hidden cameras applied for jobs and began work at Food Lion supermarkets in North and South Carolina. The footage they produced was aired in 1992 as part of a story accusing the supermarket chain of redating out-of-date beef, bleaching meat to hide its odor and mixing old meat in with new. The day after the PrimeTime Live episode, Food Lion's stock price fell by more than 10 percent...
...supermarket chain Food Lion a substantial damage award after all. The decision reverses a verdict that had been seen as a significant erosion of First Amendment rights. At issue was a 1992 "Primetime Live" expos? of unsanitary Food Lion practices such as bleaching old meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used to report the story (lying on job applications to get in the door, shooting covert footage inside the store and baiting other...
...unclear whether the heightened search to discover the odor was triggered because a foreign dignitary was speaking nearby...
Yellow police tape blocked the entrance to the Taubman building at the John F. Kennedy School of Government for 30 minutes Tuesday, as U.S. Army ordinance technicians tried to determine the cause of a suspicious odor...
Neither HUPD, the CFD, the Cambridge Police Department, nor the Secret Service would comment on who initially smelled the odor...