Word: outer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson had the most to gain by renewing consumers' trust. Before the murders, Tylenol had 37% of the $1.2 billion painkiller market; that share slipped to 7% during the scare, but has now rebounded to 24%. Tylenol's new wrapping offers triple protection: 1) the outer box is glued shut; 2) the cap and neck of the bottle inside the box are encased in a form-fitting shrink seal; and 3) an airtight foil seal covers the opening underneath. Like some other manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson says it has not raised prices to cover the extra...
...placed second to him in a European health institute's study of the strength in athletes' legs. Then there were Borg's instincts. He was fitted with enough quickness even before trophy was installed, magnified by his almost eerie eyesight. "He's a robot from outer space," was always Court Jester Ilie Nastase's hushed theory, "a Martian." But of all the elements of the world's best tennis player (from 1976 to 1981, at least), his concentration was the most astounding. As it turns out, that beady-eyed resolve, not the legs, went...
...idea looks like a foreign object-it's something to run away from. So they clone whatever was successful elsewhere. Just watch: next year's surefire hit will be called Magnum E.T. They'll have a hairy guy with a mustache come in from outer space. Me, I'd rather watch a rerun of The Honeymooners...
...garnered less than 4% of the soft-drink market. As it has done so often with detergents, the company is introducing a new, improved version of Crush with a more "orangy" taste. P & G is testing a series of TV commercials in which an E.T.-like visitor from outer space called Ozmo comes to earth to pick up a sample of the improved Orange Crush...
...pressed the issue. For one thing, the Defense Department is itself considering using reactors to power laser and particle-beam weapons that may eventually be deployed in space. Also, NASA has already sent nuclear power packs to the moon and uses them regularly on robot spacecraft to the outer planets, like the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. (Reason: sunlight is too weak to be tapped as an energy source...