Word: roach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tandy Corp., which makes Radio Shack products, said last week it has struck a breakthrough deal to supply personal computers to Japan's Matsushita Electric. The giant company will sell the computers, priced from $999 to $5,299, in the U.S. under its Panasonic label. Tandy chairman John Roach touted the event last week as a symbol of resurgent U.S. competitiveness. Said he: "It's a sign of the times that an American manufacturer is in this position...
...this for a wet dream?" At a nightmare diner ("If the food don't kill ya, the service will!"), he transforms one boy, literally, into a pizza face ("Rick, you little meatball!"), then devours him ("Mmmm, soul food!"). Another victim sprouts insect legs when trapped in Freddy's Roach Motel: "You can check in, but you can't check...
Faculty members and students who oppose the cutbacks have mounted a drive to oust the school's president, Ed Roach, whose appointment was pushed by Pickens. If that fails, Pickens' critics plan to make his heavy-handed treatment of the school an issue in this year's state elections. Pickens dismisses his antagonists as a "few noisy malcontents." Says he: "We're only trying to create a quality school to keep our top-notch young people in the Panhandle...
Even among those charged with executing the antidrug measures, however, the string of government seizures can seem excessive and unfair, especially when they involve owners who may have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that...
Trying to determine the efficacy of a wasp that parasitizes roach eggs, Roth brought home 100 cockroach egg cases and hid them in his basement. He then released 450 wasps in the basement, allowing them to parasitize the eggs. When it came time to collect the egg cases, Roth made two unpromising discoveries: First, that the wasps parasitized less than a third of the egg cases, and second, that he could not find about 20 of the egg cases...