Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--More than 50 people escaped injury yesterday as their Trump Shuttle jet slid into Logan Airport in a spray of sparks after its nose gear malfunctioned, causing the front wheel not to extend properly...
...city council passed an ordinance prohibiting the manufacture, sale and use of virtually all ozone-depleting chemicals. Banned are plastic food packagings made with CFCs, certain types of building insulation and some solvents widely used for cleaning printed circuit boards in personal computers. Most consumer spray-can products are permitted; the majority of these are no longer propelled with CFCs. Refrigerators and automobile air conditioners are excluded, since no readily available substitute exists for the hazardous compounds they...
...early months of the investigation, a number of smoking guns were found in this equipment. But one by one they turned out to be innocuous. The first was a circuit board that had been replaced but not sprayed with a special plastic that "tagged" it as an authorized repair. American officials were afraid the KGB had installed this circuit board to reroute uncoded U.S. message traffic. But the device was tested by NSA experts, who found that it did nothing improper. Security officials later discovered that some State % Department technicians had never been told about the secret tagging program...
Those funky singing California raisins may be in for some competition from a new kid on the block: the Craisin. Invented by Ocean Spray, a Craisin is a cranberry that has been dried and sugared to sweeten its tart flavor. The product is innocent enough, but the Craisin name has turned raisin producers sour. California growers, who spent $25 million last year promoting raisins, think Craisin is a rip-off. "If it's a cranberry, why don't they call it a cranberry?" asks Don Martens, a member of the California Raisin Advisory Board...
...Ocean Spray, based in Plymouth, Mass., believes the growers' fuss is fruitless. It says there will be no confusion between the two products, since labels will read CRAISIN DRIED CRANBERRIES. Craisins will be sold as a snack and as an ingredient in other foods. They can also be found next month in a new Ralston Purina breakfast cereal. But the real question is, Can they sing...