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Long Wait. In New York, the National Association of Purchasing Management polled its members and found that products ranging from aluminum, copper and zinc to paper (both shipping boxes and office stationery), cotton, chemicals and corn syrup were available only after long waits for delivery. The McDonough Power Equipment Co., which makes lawnmowers and garden equipment, fears that the new plant it will open next spring will not be able to operate at capacity because it will not be able to get enough steel. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. is having to ration blue jeans to stores because...
...reminiscent of the late 19th century, when many parents commonly calmed their irritable or overactive children with opium-based elixirs such as Winslow's Soothing Syrup, which were readily available without prescriptions...
...first contact with the big name professors came at a Currier House Ice Cream Bash given by co-Masters Paul Levine and Ursula Goodenough. We were amazed to eat ice cream with a Nobel Laureate while chocolate syrup dripped down his chin. But although we were nervous, things went well, and our experience at the Bash made us relatively certain that professors would be willing to talk to fledgling freshmen...
...doctor's orders, this show is forbidden to anyone who suffers from too much sugar. After a fairly sprightly opening, the "Julie Andrews Nostalgia Hour," as the series should be named, has become so mired in goo-a mixture of honey, corn syrup and Grandma's Geritol-that even the star seems unable to move...
What is a "directional sign"? The House Public Works Committee defines it so broadly that almost every extant billboard could qualify: SLEEPY TIME, MOTEL, 12 MILES, for example, or SUPER GAS, NEXT RIGHT, Or STRAIGHT AHEAD FOR MAPLE SYRUP. But that is not the worst of it. There are now some 800,000 billboards-technically illegal under the beautification act's language -lining about 200,000 miles of rural roads. If Congress authorizes six outdoor signs per mile, the U.S. could legally have 1.2 million billboards in its future-a net addition of 400,000 signs...