Word: soap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressed with Allegis' move. Said Partner Augustus Oliver: "We are currently evaluating it." Translation: a further battle is possible. Allegis stock, meanwhile, closed the week at 86 1/2, up 15 from the previous week. Said Robert Joedicke, an airline analyst for the Shearson Lehman Bros. investment house: "Like a soap opera, this isn't going to be decided tomorrow...
...from the ministry, but he demonstrated . last week that he has lost none of his preacher's skill at summoning up a supportive Bible verse. He recited the above words from Psalms 38: 12 during the second of two remarkable performances on ABC-TV's Nightline show, capping a soap opera-like, ten-week saga of money, power and sex that has transfixed skeptic and believer alike. Flanked by his moist-eyed wife Tammy Faye, Bakker informed Nightline Host Ted Koppel and his television audience -- the largest in the show's seven-year history -- that his lethal enemy...
...could take two years for the Government to sort through the mound of data, conduct its own tests and allow fake fat to reach menus and supermarket shelves. But Wall Street is already optimistic that the maker of Ivory soap, Crest toothpaste and Crisco oil has its hands on the greatest food-industry breakthrough since, well, sliced bread. Within two days of the FDA filing, P&G shares jumped 10%, to 93 5/8. P&G (1986 revenues: $15.4 billion) has "hit a grand-slam home run," says Hercules Segalas, an analyst for the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. "This...
...store is likely to be underwhelmed initially. The outlets are mostly linoleum floored and arrayed with row upon row of simple racks and counters, punctuated by signs pointing to particular bargains. But the no-frills atmosphere suits the predominantly blue-collar clientele just fine. From shotgun shells to laundry soap, most products are well-known brands at deep discounts. Wal-Mart, unlike many other discount outlets, offers more: well-scrubbed aisles, fully stocked shelves and relentlessly upbeat clerks. "It's attitude," explains Wal-Mart Vice Chairman Jack Shewmaker. "Give me workers with the right attitude...
Young and restless politicians with one life to live, desperately searching for the guiding light to another world of national celebrity. A new soap opera? Not quite, but close. It is the televised Iran-contra hearings that will pre-empt the soaps this week...