Word: purina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reflecting the growing sense of the difference animals can make, regulations for federally subsidized housing now assure that the elderly and handicapped can keep pets. Last month the Ralston Purina Co. announced a $1 million program to help local humane societies and shelters fund the initial costs of adopting a pet for those over...
...call the doctor in the morning," says Veterinarian Larry Glickman of the University of Pennsylvania. Moreover, they require care, can bite and cause allergies. But what they bring can be hard to improve on. New Yorker Reuben Selnick, 61, a recovering alcoholic who adopted a cat named Oliver in Purina's pilot program, speaks for many. "I was at a very low ebb when I met Oliver," he says. "Now I have something to live...
...chain mail!" Schlock: Gatorland Zoo with its Gator Jumparoo show, in which thousand-pound alligators lurch out of the water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop), a portrait of Jesus that Elvis gave his parents when...
Still, some U.S. firms have succeeded. IBM, Polaroid, NCR, Ralston Purina and Motorola have flourishing Japanese operations. McDonald's of Japan is the country's largest food-service company, with 457 shops. 7-Eleven has 2,299 stores in Japan, 308 of which opened during the past year. IBM has been operating in Japan since 1937, and earns more than $350 million a year there. Among the reasons: the vast majority of its 15,000 employees in Japan are locals, and the company works with several Japanese partners, including Mitsubishi and Kanematsu-Gosho...
...left the board in May 1983 that Araskog, a West Point graduate who grew up on a Minnesota farm, could assume full command. The clearest signal that he was committed to major divestitures came last August, when ITT sold Continental Baking, which makes Wonder bread and Twinkies, to Ralston Purina for $475 million...