Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grateful for being recognized as one of the leading manufacturers of equipment that provides tamper-proof seals. However, in your story "Tylenol Legacy" [Nov. 1], you reported that Pillar Corp.'s 1981 sales were $2 million. The figure should have been $20 million...
ENTER THE MEN of the cloth, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, into the bloody strife of Palermo. For years, Church and Mafia have made the strangest of political bedfellows. The prelates refrained from outright condemnation because the Sicilian organization was viewed as a strong conservative, anti-communist force, a supporting pillar of peasant society. The mob glady played along...
...business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that is based just on the queries we've had in the past three weeks." The company makes "blister packs": plastic sheets that encase each capsule in a container within its own bubble. Tiny Pillar Corp. of Milwaukee (1981 sales: $2 million) is awash in stacks of new orders for its sealing machinery. Says President Ernest Goggio: "People want to buy right now. They don't want to fool around...
...wage-freeze idea "totally unnegotiable." Even among pro-business spokesmen, who generally support Kohl, the wage-freeze idea was greeted with trepidation. Rolf Rodenstock, president of the Cologne-based Federation of German Industry, feared the plan would undermine public confidence. Said he: "I believe it is not a pillar of wisdom...
...very hot. The day begins with a spurt of machine-gun fire and a shriek in the street, followed by a low moaning. One learns that these sounds are normal. Late yesterday afternoon, a car bomb exploded a few blocks from the hotel, killing two, shooting a gray-white pillar of smoke into the sky, which turned black before vanishing. Destruction is everywhere. An apartment house on a corner is cracked in the middle like a bone. It sags and heaves. Fragments of cement and wire hang from the structure at impossible angles. A carton of unopened Pepsis rests...