Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Employees can set up the new IRA accounts starting on Jan. 1, and retirement experts believe that they will be widely used. Says James Dockerty, who manages pension benefits for 35,000 Shell Oil employees: "IRAS will become very popular...
...James Murray of Chicago's Policy Research Corp., "there'll be a $50 billion to $100 billion annual market for agribusiness applications of genetic engineering by 1996-ten times the potential of medical-pharmaceutical applications." Within the past ten years, giant companies like Atlantic Richfield, Pfizer, Shell, Upjohn, Ciba-Geigy and Occidental Petroleum have bought seed companies, the obvious distributors of the products of agrigenetics...
...CULLOUGH CANNOT BE FAULTED for trying a completely new style or subject matter. But in An Indecent Obsession, she contents herself with creating the bare shell of a potentially riveting story. In describing Sergeant Jones' tendency to adopt "strays" as friends, she introduces a whole range of possible relationships between Jones and his fellow patients. But she never fully pursues the implications of that idea...
...unusual feature of the Head is its staggered start. The boats do not square off head-to-head; they each race against the clock. The only classic "confrontations" you see come when one shell picks up enough steam to overtake another...
...arms of government, the Reagan Pentagon has been the most cooperative recently in providing inanity suitable for ridicule. So no one should complain about the mothballing of the nuclear shell game concept. First of all, it'll probably be back before you can shout "Hit the deck! It's a preemptive first-strike attack!" And second, the military is hard at work hustling new yuks all the time...