Word: stains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brace themselves to smile: the company that came up with Band-Aids has turned its attention to teeth. Johnson & Johnson's orthodontic division last week unveiled a new kind of bracket, the part of braces that affixes to the teeth. Called Starfire brackets, they are made of transparent, stain-proof sapphire. They may become an attractive alternative to clear brackets made of plastic, which tend to discolor. Traditional metallic braces, though still widely used, give some self-conscious patients the feeling that they resemble James Bond's cinematic nemesis Jaws...
...Boesky, but they were trapped, almost by chance, in the widening network of information that the investigators were gathering. Their arrests seemed to confirm what many bankers and investors had long feared: in the frenetic climate of Wall Street's protracted bull market, insider trading had become a spreading stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire financial community...
...been around in the colonial days and stayed on after independence, the visitor caught the vibration of a nostalgia so radical that it strained all the way back to the Pleistocene. They had no use for people anymore. They seemed to wish to cleanse the earth of the human stain, and restore it to preconscious innocence...
...With the help of a highly placed informant, federal authorities dramatically arrest three prominent members of the Manhattan financial community for profiting on private stock- market information. Investigations of insider trading continue to widen. Meanwhile, the practice has become a stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire investment industry...
...amiably sleepy town of about 2,000 souls (all of Forsyth County has only 38,000). Its biggest employer is a poultry-processing plant; its biggest social activity for adolescents is drag-racing outside the K mart. But for all its bucolic torpor, Cumming bears a dark stain on its history: an 18-year-old white woman was beaten and raped there one day in 1912 and, before she died, named three blacks as her attackers. One was lynched, the other two tried and hanged before a gloating crowd. There were so many threats against the remaining 1,000 blacks...