Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barber would unlock the door of his shop at 7 a.m. or so-early, because it was an important ceremony of his day to shave the important and self-important men of the town, whose gold-lettered mugs stood splendidly on the shelf above the mirror. Then he would hang up his straw hat and suit coat and raise his window shades. After that he would put on his barber coat, and, finally, he would step outside his shop with the key for winding up his spring-driven barber pole motor. When the twisted red, white and blue stripes began...
...however, with SALT II on the shelf, the Soviets must decide whether they can live with the near certainty that the protocol will expire well before its temporary cruise missile limitations can be permanently extended. Under these changed circumstances, SALT as a whole becomes less valuable to the Soviets, since one of their main purposes is to use the negotiations to impede the American cruise missile program...
...begins this latest account of the (pick your adjective) stupendous, meteoric, miraculous rise of Washington's only morning newspaper. The celebration and meticulous telling of that newspaper's story is now practically a publishing category of its own, perhaps soon to be a new shelf in bookstores: "Cooking," "Jogging," "Post." Yet the writers of these tomes, for all their attention to the detail of personnel changes and serious analysis of every merger and serious analysis of every merger and acquisition, avoid the most salient factor in the Post's rise...
...naturals' market has shrunk from 10% in 1974 to the current 3%. Fortified bran-based cereals, helped by studies showing the health benefits of high-fiber diets, have replaced the natural products. Quaker Oats' Corn Bran is now one of the hottest new cereals on the shelf, while Ralston's Honey Bran and Kellogg's Most have also appeared in the past year. To hit even smaller segments of an increasingly fragmented market, Kellogg is test-marketing high-in-iron Smart Start for women of ages 20 to 40 and is considering a product for adults...
...create IF in the laboratory. That promises to be a difficult task: so long a chain tends to break apart in synthesis. But if they succeed, pharmaceutical companies may some day be able to mass-produce this and other types of interferon using only off-the-shelf chemicals...