Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Mary Poppins, who was armed only with a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, the new nannies are valued for their specialized knowledge. At North American, for example, students learn toilet-training procedures from a pediatric nurse, diet planning for acne-prone adolescents from a nutritionist and how to deal with family turmoil from a counselor. Says Nanny Plan Student Marcie Mansell, 24, a former cosmetics-company beauty adviser: "We are professionals trained to know things baby-sitters...
...egalitarian course between the pantry and the parlor. Says Bunge: "They're not servants and they're not new sisters. What are they? That's what the nannies have to figure out." Mary Poppins may be an outdated stereotype, but it just may take a spoonful of sugar--or two--to help such assertive new medicine go down in America...
Lenders, too, are getting tough with the Hunts. The principal banks used by Hunt International Resources, a huge sugar refiner and drilling-rig operator, have stopped paying some of the company's bills. The firm two weeks ago said that it would probably never be able to repay all of its $295 million in defaulted loans. One result: company paychecks were bouncing last week. Until recently, the banks were willing to keep lending to the company. Now the impatient institutions are putting heavy pressure on Hunt International to sell its assets in order to pay off its mounting debts...
...with ether and acetone to remove impurities, and filtering the mixture through tightly woven cloth, leaving a slurry. When this is dried in its turn, it becomes concentrated cocaine hydrochloride, so potent that consumption could lead to seizures or death. The pure cocaine is cut with substances such as sugar, talcum powder or flour to produce the high-priced "snow" sold on the street...
...Lambie Pie, Honey Bear and Poopsie, a possible reference to fatigue. There are also physically or emotionally descriptive terms such as Hot Lips, Heartthrob, Hunk and Cuddles. All of which have taken up residence in the language in both conversation and song, as in the distinguished lyric: "When my Sugar walks down the street/ All the little birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet...