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...work for 90 hours a week and leaving a still-unlicensed 20-year-old stranded. Not only did her new job deprive me of a trustworthy ride; all of a sudden, dinner wasn’t being purchased, the dishes weren’t being washed, and trash wasn’t being taken...
...There isn’t a couch or a chair that wasn’t pulled out of the trash somewhere,” says Brogan, the lieutenant...
...women who had known him, identifying and tracking down crucial sources, then hounding them until they gave a statement or an interview. We call that kind of material oral history, but in the late 19th century it was just as likely to be called gossip--or, worse, scurrilous trash. Herndon thought that history should tell the full truth about a man and that Lincoln's character could only be magnified by a full portrait of it. He dug hard on matters that polite people thought should be left to rest: that Lincoln's mother had been born out of wedlock...
Union Carbide's consumer division, which last year accounted for 20% of company sales, contains such winners as Eveready batteries, Prestone antifreeze, STP fuel additive and Glad trash bags. Among the ready suitors rumored to be interested in these popular products are Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Ralston Purina. PERSONNEL Video Headhunting...
Table Money has its affectionate touches, like the etiquette for throwing out the trash: "The proper Glendale housewife keeps such a small garbage can in the kitchen that it must be emptied four and five times a day. The sweater tossed over the shoulders goes with the chore." There is a salute to the Delahanty Institute, which prepared generations of young men for the police- and fire-department exams, and a bitterly funny scene in which two sandhogs find themselves in a midtown Manhattan bar filled with three-piece suits and attach cases...