Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollars in nonperishable goods are also transported by airlines, and delivery delays can lead to losses many times larger than the cost of the actual goods shipped. Commercial aviation moves 90% of the nation's first-class mails and is the principal way in which many firms rush spare parts to customers. Shell Oil Co.'s huge Norco refinery outside New Orleans daily receives several such shipments of spare parts, and its operations could have to be cut back without them...
...Magnin in Los Angeles, customers snapped up 60 pairs of $57 Martini Osvaldo metallic sandals in a single day. Says Magnin Buyer Laura Rosenthal: "I've never seen anything come close to that record-not even when go-go boots were in." At Saks in Chicago, the gold rush has been similarly frantic. Says General Manager Marvin Cooper: "We haven't pulled the metallics together in one department yet, because we can't keep them in stock long enough...
...manicured silver mane crowns Jack Gilford's head, but he tugs an imaginary forelock to his hit playwright wife. As for Joyce Van Patten, endlessly dutiful homemaker to a fabulous screen idol, she scoops up her lines with the hilariously harried rush of a mother on a late laundry...
...that has sometimes brought him into collision with Weinberger, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and occasionally people in his own department. Neumann had earlier displeased Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
...photograph of the royal couple as a souvenir front page on Thursday. The Economist had a color news page for the first time in its 138-year history. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 8 million), the largest newspaper in the world, deemed the wedding story important enough to rush in a color photo midway through its evening press run. But by week's end such energy had begun to dissipate. Most reporters were content to leave the saga of Charles and Diana on the note sounded in a Times editorial: "They have a marriage to build...