Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good onion: the Vidalia. Now stores from Manhattan to Miami, Los Angeles to Seattle, sell Vidalias, real and counterfeit. The growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion. The grower's name, address and telephone number appear on the tag. To accept a bag of onions without all this pedigreed labeling, according to Grower Jack Todd...
...Olympic Sales in downtown Los Angeles last week, an Atari home computer that cost $630 three years ago carried a price tag of $77.95. At Lechmere Sales in Cambridge, Mass., Texas Instruments micros that retailed for $525 in 1981 could be had for less than $100. Gemco stores in California were selling Commodore 64 computers for $199 each, two-thirds off their price of six months ago. In Chicago, K mart was unloading tiny Timex Sinclair 1000s, listed last year at $99.95, for $29.97 each...
...paraded in front of their applauding ancestors. One junior, who as the offspring of a '58er has been experiencing the ritual from the inside, reports that at the usually stony Freshman. Union the serves are suddenly calling him by his first name (reading it off the colour-coded tag on his lapel) and asking him how large a portion he wants...
...Imagine," suggested Gromyko, "that a terrible tragedy has occurred and that say, a nuclear-armed British missile is in flight. Should it carry a tag. 'I am British'? Or imagine," Gromyko continued, "a French missile flying Perhaps it will also carry a tag saying. 'I am French, I should not have been included in the count...
Harvard regained the advantage, as Ed Farrell led things off. Farrell doubled an 0-2 pitch, then watched as Vinnie Martelli stroked another 0-2 pitch over the left field fence and beyond. One out later, Jay McNamara doubled, then scored under Big Red catcher Dave Menapace's tag when Tony DiCesare lined one to left. When Scott Vierra and Bruce Weller nabbed back-to-back singles, Harvard led 5 1 and Cornell starter Steve Huber left in favor of Larry Brown...