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...regional, Momma or Aunt Hattie. If it's good, it's worth saving." But he warned that the conserving must be done with expertise. Many hope that New York Times Food Editor Craig Claiborne is equally correct with his prediction: "I don't think we're going back to plain old pot roast. We're not going back to Jell-O That's ridiculous...
...long ago it was generally supposed that one kind of building was suitable to almost every modern purpose. Corporate offices? Put up a plain box, a big one. A university? Put up a couple of plain boxes, medium size. A civic building? Another box, and make it bland...
...modest 2.4% rate, it provided most companies with just enough propulsion to make for a comfortable ride. But if the economic mainstream was smooth, the trip for many voyagers was as hair-raising as a Snake River rafting expedition. In 1985 a parade of slumps, scandals, panics and just plain goofs rocked the business world. All the while, an unprecedented wave of acquisitions was swallowing up such well-known corporate names as ABC, RCA, Nabisco, General Foods and Revlon...
...When the plain-paper copying process was discovered in 1938, its revolutionary potential was so little appreciated that Inventor Chester Carlson wound up selling it to the Battelle Memorial Institute, a research foundation in Columbus. In 1947, Battelle in turn sold the technology to the company that eventually became Xerox. Now Battelle has warned that Carlson's invention, which has become not only an office fixture but something of a technological wonder, will by the end of the decade be capable of duplicating the delicate shadings of U.S. currency. In a study for the Federal Reserve, Battelle predicts that...
There is one area of general agreement about what has caused the insurance crisis: plain old-fashioned greed. Ah, but whose greed...