Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlimbered, headed for the microphone and became transformed as he began to talk. The huge crowd fell silent. The photographers thought that they saw more color come into the President's cheeks, the wrinkles smooth out, the years fall away. Once again, Ronald Reagan was playing Hollywood's velvety- voiced crooner, delivering his favorite political tune...
...that Congressman Trent Lott campaigned for the Senate by reminding voters of the seriousness of the occasion: "This is only the second time in 40 years that Mississippi has elected a ((new)) Senator." To replace Democrat John Stennis, 87, who is retiring after 41 years in the office, the smooth, natty Lott won a tight race against a contrastingly folksy Democratic Congressman, Wayne Dowdy. Lott's victory gives the state two G.O.P. Senators for the first time since Reconstruction...
...Philip Morris ($28 billion). Hamish Maxwell, chairman of Philip Morris, said he will not have to sell off chunks of Kraft to finance the buyout. Said he: "For the vast majority of Kraft workers, this won't have any impact at all." The Philip Morris coup was an unusually smooth resolution. Another KKR fight fizzled last week when the Macmillan publishing firm accepted a $2.5 billion offer from British financier and press lord Robert Maxwell. In Georgia, Joseph Lanier, chairman of West Point Pepperell, which makes Arrow shirts and Martex towels, was determined to beat back...
...small Israeli company called Mepro is helping millions of women avoid the razor's edge. Mepro manufactures Epilady, a device that employs a rotating coil to grasp unwanted hair and pull it out at the root, leaving skin smooth for weeks. Introduced in 1986, Epilady (price for the basic model: $50) has already become a major Israeli export, with this year's worldwide retail sales expected to top $200 million. But the company faces competition from Smooth and Silky, a similar device launched this year by Remington Products...
...stay steady as he went along. The action was mostly in his knees, a sort of Bob Hope sidle. Not an athlete's walk and not one powered by an athlete's muscles. The captain on the bridge did not want to know much about engine room and propellers. Smooth...