Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...USE YOUR CHANGE TO MAKE A CHANGE, urge check-out-counter signs at 32 Cincinnati-area Kroger supermarkets. When customers fork over a $20 bill to pay a $19.24 charge, they can donate the difference to the grocery's fund to provide fresh food for the hungry...
...trickier problem for Bush is how to use the 800-lb. political gorilla named Ronald Reagan. Some advisers doubt that Reagan will be very helpful in the fall election. They fret that Bush may seem diminished when placed next to Reagan, either literally or figuratively. Reagan was expected to endorse Bush this week at a Washington victory party, their first 1988 joint political appearance. Even so, Bush and the White House have worked out a plan for Reagan to put in only a brief appearance at the G.O.P. convention, thus keeping the spotlight on the nominee...
...innocent brown eyes belie his prodigious street smarts. Frog is happy to tell you that he rakes in $200 a week selling crack, known as rock in Los Angeles. He proudly advertises his fledgling membership in an ultra-violent street gang, the Crips. And he brags that he has used his drug money to rent a Nissan Z on weekends. He has not yet learned how to use a stick shift, however, and at 4 ft. 10 in., he sometimes has trouble seeing over the dashboard. Frog is 13 years...
...years later, national attention turned to the cockroach as the federal Ribicoff Committee started investigating the use of pest controls which do not have a severe effect on the environment. The investigation was prompted by the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," which decried the use of dangerous pesticides. A national news program televised some of the hearings, including a demonstration of the effect of the female sex attractant, without mentioning the army lab's part in the study...
...addition, research has shown that a large percentage of American cockroach eggs hatch even if they are not fertilized by a male. Referring to the army's proposal to use the sex attractant as a pesticide, Roth says, "I had a vision whereby eliminating males, you could create a super race of females...