Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sales have were up 50 percent over last year mostly because of our greatly expanded Harvard insignia department," said Dimitri S. Tragos, store manager of J. August & Co. on Mass. Ave. Tragos said he has hired three extra employees to deal with a strong Christmas sales rush...
...many times it has been cloned, reproduced and postcarded, it can restore itself as an immediate utterance with the unexpected force of strangeness when seen in the original. Some of the Van Goghs in this show, such as the Museum of Modern Art's Starry Night, with its oceanic rush of whorling energy through the dark sky, ought by now -- if frequency of reproduction were as lethal as one sometimes thinks -- to be among the most overworked cliches in art. But on the wall, among less familiar paintings (of which there are many in this show, thanks to the persistence...
...pursuit of that dream the Monell Center has filed applications for four pheromone patents. The Japanese have purchased rights for research and marketing of a pheromone-based product. U.S. rights are still available. Preti thinks some manufacturers may rush in right now with some sort of essence, even though the 200-odd chemical components of male and female odors have not been sorted out. An effective commercial scent, he believes, is unlikely for three to five years...
...influenza strains predominant in the U.S. in the 1950s) only since June, when the first cases were confirmed in Taiwan. Pharmaceutical companies, which had already manufactured a single-shot flu vaccine that is effective against three known and anticipated strains -- A/Chile, A/Mississippi and B/ Ann Arbor -- were forced to rush a separate A/Taiwan vaccine into production. Though no one knows how serious this season's attack will be, influenza generally kills 20,000 to 40,000 Americans in a single winter, more victims than AIDS has claimed since it first appeared...
...main handicap at the moment is its high production costs, which analysts put at $11,500 an auto, compared with $9,800 at Ford and $9,300 at Chrysler. A prime reason, ironically, is GM's multibillion-dollar rush to reduce labor costs by installing robotic factories, many of which still have bugs. Example: at Detroit's Poletown luxury-car plant, the taillights on some models tended to melt in the automated paint-hardening ovens. The technology * should gradually become a financial advantage as it begins to operate more smoothly. Says Chairman Smith: "You know we are not making clothespins...