Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many cannot seem to shed the nagging feeling that they went wrong somewhere, that they have betrayed the ideals of their youth. This is exactly the kind of emotion Anthony M. Casale and Phillip Lerman tap into in their new book Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation...
...past two months. Other firms are building up cash reserves against an uncertain future by paring back their defense ventures. Minneapolis-based Honeywell, the leading supplier of lightweight torpedoes to the U.S. Navy, has sold three military electronics and communications subsidiaries since last August, and is seeking to shed a fourth. In what has become a military garage sale, bargains aplenty can be found. David Smith, a senior vice president at the Raymond James & Associates brokerage in St. Petersburg, estimates that the rush to bail out of the defense business has depressed the value of such firms as much...
...seems that someone poured the potent herbicide Velpar in a circle around the tree early this year, committing a "malicious act against an innocent creature," said city forester John Giedraitis. When the tree shed beads of sap, he said, "it's weeping. This tree is under a tremendous amount of stress." Velpar maker Du Pont has put up a $10,000 reward for the capture of the tree's poisoner. Says a poster at the tree: HANG HIM FROM THE HIGHEST LIMB...
...waning years of the 20th century, the greatest challenge posed by Communism will not be containing its spread but coping with its decline. From the bloodshed in Beijing to the political paralysis in Poland, efforts to shed hard-line systems are provoking agonal gasps that are at turns cheering and frightening...
Before Johnny shed Jody, he acquired an announcer named Ed McMahon. This was to become one of the enduring show-business partnerships, but not until some rules were established. Carson's first Tonight show bandleader, Skitch Henderson, remembers the "many times I watched Johnny trying to get rid of Ed." Then McMahon stopped reaching for his own laughs and settled into the long-running role of Mr. Subservience...