Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different styles, but they don't tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...
April 18 (Dow down 12.80): The Times said stocks were brought down by a surge in oil prices following Iraq's refusal to comply with U.N. sanctions. The Journal said they finished lower because "a sell-off in the bond market eroded investors' enthusiasm for first-quarter earnings reports"--an explanation that left this investor totally confused...
...starting at $30 for men and $35 for women. Perms cost around $85. A natural-nail manicure starts at $15. For $10 more, the customer receives a hand treatment that includes a wrist and arm massage, skin exfoliation and skin conditioning. The salon is also looking into using hot oil and parafin treatments...
...Sunset Strip. His recent talk show tour to apologize for his encounter with Divine Brown has become very good publicity for his two upcoming films "An Awfully Big Adventure" and "Nine Months." Grant does wonderful work as an actor in the former movie as a vicious, smooth-as-snake-oil director of a theater troupe in postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. But it is the other, lesser performance in "Nine Months" that showcases Grant in the role Hollywood wants: Movie Star. The film...
...each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...