Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jessica McClure, trapped in a well, grabbed the attention of the global village, garnering the financial resources it took to save her. A heartwarming rescue. Baby Jessica was replaced months later by the icebound whales, and the year was punctuated by children needing organ transplants. Fruit, on the second shelf of the refrigerator, makes good copy...
Many chemicals confer clear benefits. Preservatives, for example, can ; prevent the growth of bacteria and extend the shelf life of foods. But the advantages of compounds that serve simply as flavorings and colorings are more doubtful. Spurred by consumer demand for "all-natural" products, the food industry is moving to curb such nonessential uses...
After an extremely promising seventh grade year in which she ran the 400 meters in a little over 60 seconds and made it to the finals in the Junior Nationals, Rainey put her spikes on the back shelf and ventured out into other activities and sports, including basketball and volleyball...
...assume that our report, like the Whitla report, will wind up on a shelf fairly shortly and that no one is going to remember it," Verba says. "That doesn't bother me as long as we have left behind something that carries on the intention of the report...
...Batch cookies, Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers and Sunshine's Hydrox cookies, is prompted by health considerations -- and rising consumer pressure. Manufacturers have long been partial to the balmy-sounding vegetable oils -- coconut, palm-kernel and palm -- mainly because they impart a nongreasy taste and texture and extend the shelf life of products. But they are also high in saturated fat, the prime booster of blood-cholesterol levels. Coconut oil contains 92% saturated fat, palm-kernel oil 86% and palm oil 51%. In comparison, the damaging fat makes up only 27% of cottonseed oil, 15% of soybean...