Word: syrup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Valerie Harper, once TV's best-known neurotic single, is back in sitcomland as a housewife and mother of three boys in Valerie. Unfortunately, she spends more time milking gag lines than paying attention to the details of motherhood. When a youngster spills maple syrup all over the breakfast table, Mom yells convincingly but makes no move toward the table. Is there a mother on earth who would not be there with a sponge in two seconds flat? Of course, the gooey mess must stay in place so 16-year-old David (Jason Bateman...
...producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...
When consumed in quantity, ipecac may be particularly poisonous to skeletal and heart muscle tissues and can eventually lead to death. Ipecac syrup is sold over the counter to induce vomiting in the case of accidental poisoning...
Richardson-Vicks, which sells such popular products as NyQuil cough syrup and Clearasil acne cream, agreed to sell out to Procter & Gamble for $1.24 billion and thus avoid a bid from Unilever. Revlon, which markets items ranging from Charlie perfume to Tums antacid tablets, eluded Pantry Pride by accepting a buy-out offer of about $1.7 billion from Forstmann Little. If the deals go through, Richardson-Vicks and Revlon will join General Foods (Jell-O, Maxwell House coffee) and Nabisco (Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers) on the list of consumer-goods titans being taken over this year...
First you tear up 250 acres of California ranchland. Then you fill the holes with tons of sewage, cyanide, Nair hair-removal cream, spoiled Coca-Cola syrup, winery dregs, rocket fuel, rat carcasses, nitric acid, paint chips and fish organs. What do you get? A state-of-the-art toxic-waste-treatment facility...