Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seventy-six million people, nearly one-third of the U.S. population, were born between 1946 and 1964. Moreover, now that they are mostly in their 20s to mid-30s, many baby-boom adults are taking home big paychecks for the first time. Population experts refer to this as "the pig in a python" phenomenon because demographic charts today resemble a snake that has just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working its way through society...
Once wary businessmen are quickly pouring money into a bewildering array of enterprises. These include textile-dyeing plants, large-scale pig- and poultry-raising operations, hotels, shipbuilding yards and even a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant. The LMK Group, a Hong Kong textile and garment maker, has invested $14 million in a large dyeing factory in Shenzhen that will employ 250 workers. Managing Director Eddie Lo predicts that LMK will have an output of 6 million yards a month by mid-October, and he already foresees expanding the operation to include spinning, weaving and garment making...
...With a pig's eyes that never look up, with a pig's snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure about his habitat...
...station break are going to find Riddley Walker easy to bypass. The novel's first sentence, for example, is not exactly a conventional grabber: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." Even patient readers are likely to riffle pages at this point, trying to find out how long such odd English continues. Answer...
...began to exercise more." After visiting a hypertension clinic in Manhattan and a diagnostic center on Long Island, Correspondent Mary Cronin persuaded a reluctant relative to undergo a battery of tests. Says Cronin: "She got a clean bill of health and told me to be my own guinea pig next time." Jacqueline Schmeal interviewed surgeons at the University of Texas and Texas Heart Institute and came away marveling at their dedication. Says she: "One doctor I talked to works 18-hour days, then eats and sleeps right inside the hospital." In San Francisco, Dick Thompson watched a triple bypass operation...