Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only in the past ten years, though, has Spanglish begun to turn into a national slang. Its popularity has grown with the explosive increases in U.S. immigration from Latin American countries. English has increasingly collided with Spanish in retail stores, offices and classrooms, in pop music and on street corners. Anglos whose ancestors picked up such Spanish words as rancho, bronco, tornado and incommunicado, for instance, now freely use such Spanish words as gracias, bueno, amigo and por favor...
...through mid-July, when the plants are pollinated, up to half of the crops could be lost. The sale of stockpiled crops from previous years will mitigate the effects of the drought, but rising corn prices are already putting pressure on cereal makers. General Mills last month boosted the retail prices of its breakfast brands 5%. Kraft is charging 8% more for its soybean oil-based margarine...
...next year. Many ranchers cannot afford the corn and soybean meal to feed their herds. At the same time, much of the pastureland their cows normally graze has been scorched. As a result, ranchers are slaughtering many more of their cattle than usual. As the meat comes to market, retail prices for beef and pork should decline for the next few months. But by next spring the herds will be reduced, and prices are likely to increase as much as 10% from their current levels. The calf herd is expected to drop below 39 million head next year, the lowest...
...women's work. Examples of early successes: Florence Nightingale Graham co-founded the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company in 1910, and Margaret Fogarty Rudkin started Pepperidge Farm in 1937. But today women own all kinds of firms. While the majority are service companies (women own nearly half of all retail businesses, for example), female entrepreneurs are also making rapid headway in manufacturing, construction, mining and other industrial fields...
...popular format a mite bigger than their audio counterparts. The Video Walkman can record programs from its built-in TV receiver or from a home set, then play the tape on its 3- in. color screen. The new product will be released in the U.S. late this year. Expected retail price: about...