Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which family feuds are made. The problem is the packaging: some people think nothing of leaving the cap off or nonchalantly squeezing from the 1 middle of the tube. But now U.S. makers of "dentifrice think they can bring harmony to the bathroom sink with a packaging breakthrough: the pump, a hard plastic container that dispenses toothpaste with a flick of the thumb...
Minnetonka, the Minnesota firm that developed Softsoap, last May introduced the first pump toothpaste, Check-Up. Now Colgate-Palmolive is following with Colgate in a pump, and Lever Bros, has put out a pump version of Aim. Procter & Gamble started test-marketing a Crest pump in August. Packaging experts predict a tough battle over which brand's pump design is superior. Crest's model, for example, uses valves to extrude the paste, while Colgate's design has a piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have...
...protesters disrupted Easter Sunday services in Pittsburgh's wealthiest Presbyterian church, Denominational Ministry Strategy has become the best-publicized clergy group in Pennsylvania. Made up largely of Lutherans and Episcopalians, DMS and its militant labor-union allies want to force the Mellon Bank and U.S. Steel to pump more money into the sagging local economy. Among its tactics: repeated harassment at worship services attended by executives and disruption of bank operations, notably by putting dead fish in safe-deposit boxes and skunk oil in ventilation ducts. Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated in the imprisonment...
Asked whether Baby Fae would have trouble adjusting and perhaps be teased for being different, Loma Linda's Hinshaw replied, "Society may have to adjust to her." The heart, he added dryly, "is only a muscular pump. It is not the seat of the soul...
...crisis. Citing Nigeria's dire economic woes, Oil Minister Tarn David-West rebuffed pressure to restore his country's petroleum price or to cut its production target "by even one barrel." Said he: "Oil is the life of Nigeria. The Nigerian heart must pump...