Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less sugar than run-of-the-mill fare. Result: animals that smell good, have shiny coats and do not excitedly jump about. Even the pet-food giants, which control most of the $6 billion industry, have started toeing the health-food line. Last year Ralston Purina introduced O.N.E., or Optimum Nutrient Effectiveness, for snooty canines. And Quaker Oats has revamped its Cycle products for young, old and overweight dogs...
...operations in high, steep valleys. A huge Sikorsky helicopter is pulling logs out of a narrow canyon. What is going on is not just clear-cutting, which a widely ignored provision of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 permits on national forest land only when it is the optimum cutting method. This, says Stewartt, is really "a mining operation, a one-time extraction of resources." Valley walls too steep to walk on have been scraped to bare earth. Acreage bulldozed for shopping malls looks like this. Until these ravaged uplands reseed themselves -- which on the steepest slopes simply...
...money matters, Dukakis likes to remember the way his father always urged on him "Oikonomia! Oikonomia!" That applies to more than the price of a non- Filene's suit. The Greek ideal of oikonomia (literally, house management) is the optimum disposal of one's resources. Bush's claim that Dukakis has fetched his politics from some liberal boutique in Harvard could not be further from the truth. He was never susceptible to fads. He does not shop boutiques, but bargain basements, wanting the same old things at a better price...
Reagan: "Now, now, I may have said abortion wasn't the optimum form of birth control in the past, but I certainly would not condemn someone for it. The nomination stands...
...owners fired 74 miners who were said to have damaged the underground telephone system and harassed other workers. At an Anglo-American Corp. plant east of Johannesburg, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to evict 300 protesters. Later in the week, police fired birdshot at strikers at an Optimum coal mine, injuring at least 27 miners...