Word: stash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diversify! That was the buzzword in Big Oil boardrooms during the 1970s, when the companies were trying to stash away their megaprofits in ventures that would pay off in leaner times. But now, just when the investments should be ripening, many have turned up sour. Last week Exxon said that it is trying to find a buyer for its moribund office-equipment division, an enterprise that has cost the company some $100 million. When Exxon challenged Xerox, IBM and Wang by introducing its Vydec word processors, Qyx typewriters and Qwip facsimile transmitters in the late 1970s, the innovative machines drew...
...before the members of the Harvard University Cycling Association stash their faithful two-wheelers and join their fellow students in class, some of the cyclists will have logged more than 30 miles...
...households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group of peasants in Fujian province pooled its resources to buy a dozen video recorders and a stash of blue-movie tapes. They then charged $5 admission for every showing...
...frame) and routinely put in five or six 14-hour, pressure-packed days a week at the office. Rich sauces and fatty meat were his standard fare for both lunch and dinner, and exercise meant reaching under the bed to grab from his stash of pretzels and potato chips. Shragai was a classic candidate for a heart attack, and at the age of 45, he had one. Nine years later he was hospitalized for an operation to bypass five seriously blocked coronary arteries. In desperation, Shragai enrolled himself in U.C.L.A.'s Center for Health Enhancement. By changing...
...devised a plan to catch Sergeant Tarver with his hand in the cocaine jar. They planted 236 grams of coke in an unclaimed suitcase turned over to Tarver at the Houston airport. Police followed him, stopped his car and found that he had siphoned off an ounce from the stash. He was fired and charged with possession of cocaine. Tarver took the crash calmly: "I just wonder what took them so long to figure it out." At his trial, he was convicted, placed on ten years' probation and fined $10,000. He is appealing his conviction...