Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congressman Mickey Leland, a leading black supporter of Jackson, called a press conference last week to denounce an unnamed cabal of party leaders who were plotting against Jackson. There were no specifics to back up the vague allegations, but Leland fired a warning shot through his none-too-subtle use of the word racist...
Many companies are enlisting technology to get a jump on competitors. To bring inventories closer into line with sales, a growing number of retailers are using the bar-code system pioneered more than a decade ago by the grocery industry. As each item is rung up on the cash register, a company computer reads the product bar code and makes a change in its inventory records. In addition, several chains, including J.C. Penney and May Department Stores, now use private satellite television networks to link their outlets so that individual stores can exchange sales and inventory data with headquarters...
...they expected to be a textbook study in swiftly dislodging a tyrant will turn into a bloody, drawn-out struggle. "The assumption was that despite all his defects, he cared about the welfare of Panama," says a State Department official. "Well, Noriega cares exclusively about Noriega, and he will use every means at his disposal to hold...
...perhaps the kitchen will be turned to other uses entirely. "I'd like to put a treadmill in mine and use it as an exercise room," said a busy real estate agent who was buying her take-out dinner at Grace's Marketplace in New York City. It is just such foods -- and such satisfied shoppers -- that are responsible for the current flight from the stove. Eighty-one percent of American households buy take-out food within each four-week period, according to a study for the Food Marketing Institute and the Campbell Soup Co. These buyers are about...
...location of 520,000 real estate properties in Broward County, Fla. British Airways has put the entire maintenance manual for a Boeing 757 on CD, so its repair people can find the illustration of a missing part with a few taps on a keyboard. Soon, travel agents who use American Airlines' SABRE reservation system will be able to show customers photographs of vacation spots and hotel rooms on the same screens that display flight information and fares...