Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slip the rabbit snare over his tail and jerk him out of the water. But as I get older, I find the fish looking at me, so nice, and then I say, 'Go on, have another chance,' and I throw it back." Derrick Worthington, 49, a former Royal Marine who has been a water bailiff for 14 years on Wales' Pembrokeshire rivers, feels that "any bailiff who says the adrenaline isn't flowing when he is out stalking is lying." Worthington spends up to 80 hours a week stalking riverbanks for poachers, using night-light telescopes...
...sure enough, Coke's announcement barely made, Royal Crown Cola, also of Atlanta, tried to do Coke one lesser. It said that its Diet Rite Cola, the first diet soft drink ever (1962), will also be sweetened with aspartame and will contain no caffeine or, another first, sodium...
...wood-paneled gold-carpeted office in a 175-year-old white clapboard house in Morristown, N J The family owns 43% of Alleghany stock, and Kirby once called IDS the "crown jewel of [our] business affairs. He may resist parting with that jewel at anything less than a royal price...
Amid reports of dissension, a royal family learns to live with less...
...17th century brick building on Paris' Boulevard de Port-Royal, once the abbey where the Mathematician Blaise Pascal underwent religious conversion, a quite different kind of experiment is taking place. Into a small room of the Baudelocque Maternity Hospital marches a nurse bearing a tiny, wrinkled infant named Gery. He is four days old and weighs 6 lbs. 6 oz. The nurse carefully deposits Gery in a waist-high steel bassinet that stands next to a computer. The computer is attached to an empty nipple. The question to be tested: Exactly what sounds can young Gery recognize...