Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman cadet works busily in her quarters, stopping to straighten her already drum-tight bunk. The door is open, not because a male cadet is visiting but because dozens of cadets keep filing back and forth from the corridor outside. (Men have had to forgo the honored custom of strolling naked through the barracks.) The woman is a top member of the cadet Brigade. A formation of her company is just now waiting for her outside the building. "Hey, Mom, it's time," calls one of the male cadets. This time it's an affectionate nickname, a mark...
Though competitors quickly copied his formula, Johnson Products continued to dominate the sales of all hair relaxers, substances that straighten curly hair. But in 1975 the Federal Trade Commission required the company to warn consumers that Ultra Sheen contained lye, which could burn the scalp and cause eye damage. Johnson claims that FTC officials assured him at the time that the other straighteners would also have to print a warning about lye on their packages. Yet for almost two years, while Ultra Sheen's label carried the notice, competitors like Revlon continued to market their "safe," "gentle" and "natural...
...Editor/Publisher of Women's International Network News (WIN NEWS), a worldwide, open, participatory network by, for and about women concerned with women's rights and women's development, I must straighten out some of the facts in the developing world. Whatever male professors wish to quarrel about, including their academic credentials, is of no consequence to the female children in Africa, who are once more used as pawns...
...bank interest rates by 22%. "It is true that the new measures will produce higher prices and therefore hardships," said one government economist, "but inflation was doing that anyway, so the situation has changed little for the genera public." In truth, Demirel had to do something-anything-to straighten out the economy. Inflation was approaching 100%, foreign exchange reserves have fallen below $500 million, and the country had virtually no credit standing in Western banking circles...