Word: pepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pep-Pill Poisoning
...health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pep pills...
Over four days last week, 1,500 computer dealers in 25 U.S. cities listened to pep talks from John Sculley, president of Apple Computer. He showed them new television commercials, answered questions and announced that this week the Lisa computer, which sells for $9,995, will have a new stripped-down price of $6,995. The price cut for the Lisa, introduced last January with much fanfare, marks another skirmish in the war between Apple (estimated 1983 sales: $1 billion) and IBM (estimated 1983 sales: $40 billion) for the personal-computer market...
Mondale's sly question drew a roar of approval from an audience of black ministers, small-town mayors and businessmen. Officially, they were meeting to discuss issues such as education, jobs, black voting rights and voter registration. But the gathering turned into a pep rally for a black presidential candidate, with Jackson, 41, at the top of the ticket. His speeches were interrupted by chants of "Run, Jesse, run." Delegates sported buttons with Jackson's face and the I AM SOMEBODY tag line he coined and made famous. "If not now, when?" demanded Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary...
Each Monday morning at 8:30, Nohmura and 100 co-workers assemble for chokai, a corporate pep rally, where they kick off the week by reciting twelve company creeds...