Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 60 million Americans spend about $50 billion each year shopping by mail- order catalog. Until now, most of these slick advertising circulars were free. Starting later this month, however, consumers will be able to buy the publications at their local news outlets. Catalog Retail of Connecticut will send more than 200 catalogs for goods ranging from Fuller brushes to Tiffany crystal to 76,000 newsstands and other U.S. magazine retailers...
...effort into their shopping. Michael Dornemann, a director of West Germany's Bertelsmann communications giant, flew to the U.S. more than 50 times over the past three years while deciding how his company should spend its $1 billion American shopping budget. Often taking the morning Concorde from Paris in order to put in a full day's work in the states, Dornemann visited more than 20 U.S. companies before choosing his recommended targets: Doubleday publishing and RCA records. The possibility of snagging both was considered so unlikely that he and his boss, Bertelsmann Head Mark Wossner, 48, had called...
Supplied in part by American donations, the gunslinging rangers have so far captured 21 poachers and killed 29. But the gangs keep coming, and parks officials admit that they are in a losing battle. Their only hope is to slow down illegal hunting in order to buy time for two other efforts to save the rhinos. One is capturing and moving as many of the animals as possible away from the Zambezi Valley to safer sanctuaries. The other involves an international campaign of diplomacy and media pressure to shut down the trade in rhino horn...
Bacitracin is a helpful antibiotic commonly used to treat cuts and abrasions. But now the substance has ended up in the middle of a bruising bureaucratic scrape. Last week a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that it lacked authority to order the Environmental Protection Agency to remove bacitracin from a list of 406 hazardous substances, where EPA officials concede that the drug landed by mistake...
...with work; absenteeism has dropped to the lowest levels since the early 1970s. Employees regularly say they would prefer still longer hours and higher incomes to more leisure and less pay. This is not just idle talk; money-losing companies sometimes persuade their workers to sacrifice days off in order to cut costs...