Word: salt
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...factors." In some ways Reagan was right: his personal ideology and stubbornness have led to a nascent strategic-arms accord far more ambitious than anyone would have imagined when he took office. Yet in more fundamental ways, the agreement being shaped is not all that different from a SALT III treaty that a President Walter Mondale might have negotiated with Gorbachev...
...Similar systems have been employed by commercial fishermen since World War II. But like VCRs, fish finders have jumped in sales as their prices have plunged, to as little as $99 for the simplest units. Today some 20 manufacturers turn out more than 200 sounders designed for freshwater and salt water. One of the largest, Alabama-based Humminbird, has doubled its sales during the past four years, to more than $50 million in 1987. Its chief rival, Lowrance Electronics of Tulsa (1987 sales: more than $40 million), has registered annual sales increases...
Both Reagans have always been superstitious, observing such harmless rituals as knocking on wood and walking around, never under, ladders. The President puts a certain coin and a gold lucky charm in his pocket each morning, and routinely tosses salt over his left shoulder not just when he spills some but before all his meals. Ronald Reagan freely admits his superstition, but in a manner that allays concern. In his 1965 autobiography, Where's the Rest of Me?, he breezily describes his and Nancy's attention to syndicated horoscopes. And Nancy Reagan is far from the first First Lady...
...stress cracks in the plane's laminated-aluminum skin. When the cracks ruptured, the air rushing by began to peel back the roof through the so-called rip stops, the rigid upright supports in the body shell. Investigators surmise that the metal fatigue was hastened by exposure to corrosive salt air and the exceptionally high number of takeoff-and-landing cycles, nearly 90,000, that the 19-year-old island-hopping plane had completed. The number of cycles is significant because each time a plane is pressurized, its metal skin expands slightly, which after a great number of repetitions...
Last week's most frenzied bidding was for Warhol's stash of 152 cookie jars, mass-produced pottery from the 1930s and '40s in cutesy animal and cartoon motifs. At one point, two Manhattan businessmen faced off over two cookie jars and a pair of salt and pepper shakers in the form of a black chef and his wife. The final bid: $23,100 for a lot whose value Sotheby's had estimated at $100 to $150. "Spiritually, they are just wonderful," gushed Maria Olivia Judelson, wife of the victor. If so, then Cuban-born Businessman Gedalio Grinberg was truly...