Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH FAMILY Business, the director breaks with politics and produces a purely comic film about a family whose main source of income is burglary. Were it the first film of a new director, it might be touted as highly promising. But as the product of a great artiste, it disappoints...
Money-back guarantees have long been used to promote mail-order kitchen knives or lawn trimmers, but now that classic gimmick is helping sell a most unlikely product: prescription drugs. G.D. Searle -- best known for introducing the first birth-control pill and NutraSweet, the widely used sugar substitute -- is offering full refunds to customers who find the company's medications ineffective or experience unpleasant side effects. All a patient has to do is fill out a postcard-size form with information about where the drug was bought and how much it cost, and attach the sales receipt. The patient...
Overall, the Perdue products, particularly the Cornish hens, seemed somewhat fresher and brighter than the often gray-tinged, overly salty and watery Holly Farms cuts. But neither is a match for the home-cooked product, or even for a chicken fresh off the rotisserie of a neighborhood deli. Asked if the Holly Farms product is as good as her home-roasted chicken, Shore did her best. "Well, I sprinkle mine with herbs, salt, pepper and lemon juice and pop it in the oven, and it's not any better than this," she said with an almost straight face. Almost...
...Hole, was conducted in total secrecy. But word began to leak out before last week's press conference. Amid rumors of a breakthrough, Reynolds stock jumped nearly three points, to 67 3/4, in heavy trading. Once the news was out, Wall Street took a more skeptical view. The new product, analysts agreed, would not boost Reynolds' profits anytime soon, and so its stock price settled back to 64 7/8 at week...
...CORPORATION likes to keep its image up to date, and apparently cleft chins are in this year, so the big brass decided to revamp the product. Most of the work on "Michael Jackson" was actually done on computers, of course, but in order to keep the public convinced that there really is such a person as "Michael" they sent me door-to-door to pencil in the new cleft on fans' posters while they were away...