Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's in a name? If the name has a familiar ring to it, like Jell-O and Oreo or NyQuil and Clearasil, it can be worth millions of dollars. Companies that sell household products with well-known brand names have become the hottest targets in the latest round of merger wars. Last week two big packaged-goods firms--Richardson-Vicks and Revlon--escaped hostile takeovers, but only by rushing into the arms of other suitors...
Baird & McGuire is just this side of the border with Randolph, a town that has shared water supplies with Holbrook. Esther Ross, a Randolph resident, says she got worried in 1981 when she found herself going to a lot of funerals. There is a certain Times Beach ring to her recitation. "The people who owned the house next door were stricken by cancer," she says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims...
Some experts are not so certain. "All it tells you is that a person is where you want him to be," says Minnesota Corrections Commissioner Orville Pung. "He could be running a stolen-goods ring out of his house." The concept also prompts philosophical opposition. Says Joseph Vitek, director of corrections for Douglas County, Neb.: "It smacks of police state." Most / inmates, do not appear to be burdened by such considerations. Jeffrey Stafford, who is employed as a house painter, says he has every reason to make the idea work. "It would never enter my mind to tamper with...
...medical school Wednesday, a employee reported the theft of jewelry valued at $1525 from the Channing Laboratory, police said. The woman told police that she removed her gold ring, gold bracelet, and snake bracelet and placed them on a shelf before she left the room to wash some glassware...
...dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew that his life would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night. Thomas Wolfe You Can't Go Home Again...