Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process of calculating extremes, then designing beyond that." Every year the association reviews 1,200 engineering standards with an eye to making them sharper and tougher. American Cyanamid, a New Jersey-based chemical company, spent more than $10 million on safety features for just one plant in Pearl River, N.Y., where 4,000 people are employed. Allied, another New Jersey chemical giant, estimates that between 15% and 30% of the capital cost of building or expanding its plants is spent on features designed to assure their safe operation...
...turn to tell me what this is all about," asserts the narrator of the second story, which concerns the "Colonel Sanders" of tried chicken fame. Fragments of truth or even of speculation from the base around which the stories are built. The narrator of the third story summarizes a pearl as "perfection out of irritation. Here, the truth is the irritation around which is secreted the perfection of the story...
...only $32,282 for that year and a tax liability of just $19,834. In a statement last week, Nipon blamed the discrepancy largely on "the disallowance of expenditures for improvements, furnishings and renovations to my home, which were paid for by the company." Nipon and his wife Pearl, who heads the dress company's design team, live in Gladwyne, outside Philadelphia, in a Norman-style manor on a sumptuous 6.8-acre estate that he bought...
...same decade with I you," Franklin Roosevelt cabled his friend Winston Churchill. Fun hardly seemed the right word at the time: the two leaders were sharing some of the darkest moments in history. It was January of 1942. The Japanese, after their attack on Pearl Harbor, were invading the Philippines and advancing southward through British Malaya; the Germans ruled most of Europe. But Jan. 30 was also Roosevelt's 60th birthday, and Churchill remembered to wish him many happy returns, "and may your next birthday see us a long lap forward on our road." That was what prompted Roosevelt...
...theft victim returned to her room to find pearl necklace and several gold bracelets missing, and a floor plan of Dunster House left behind on the floor, police said. No suspect has yet been found...