Word: suedes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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, Talk about cutthroat competition. Boston-based Gillette, which dominates the $700 million U.S. wet-shaver market with a 65% share, sued Swedish-owned rival Wilkinson Sword last week for claiming in a TV commercial that its new Ultra Glide razor provides the "smoothest, most comfortable shave known to man." No...
Garrison Keillor is still best known as the host, head minstrel and founding fabulist of public radio's weekly Prairie Home Companion, which went off the air almost two years ago. But the shock, for a radio fan leafing through this collection, is to discover, perhaps not for the first...
ROE VS. WADE (NBC, May 15, 9 p.m. EDT). Background viewing for Supreme Court watchers: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News) plays the Texas woman who sued to terminate her pregnancy in this docudrama about the landmark abortion case now under review.
The development was touted as the breakthrough of the decade in the baby-care industry: superabsorbency in a thinner diaper. Procter & Gamble successfully test-marketed a diaper containing wood-pulp fluff and gel materials in 1984 and soon afterward brought Ultra Pampers on the market. Before long, Kimberly- Clark introduced...
In the process, however, McGinniss himself became convinced that MacDonald was guilty. His book reflected this bias, and MacDonald sued McGinniss, saying that the author broke their contract.