Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand and a bowl of pretzels near the other, the fans lean back to watch the professional football wars. The four-week-long National Football League strike, though, has halted those happy hours. The living-room quarterbacks now have little better to do than mow the lawn or wash...
...black, white and red service stations have a clean, nononsense, Mies van der Rohe look. The only adornments are deadpan signs reminding customers to turn off their engines, check the oil and, with gas sales dropping because of fuel-efficient engines, urging them to get a car wash, snacks or cigarettes. To date, 94 new Texaco stations have been built and more than 200 will be rehabilitated with the new design. All have met or exceeded sales expectations even though, as A.G.P. Designer Eugene J. Grossman puts it, "Some folks think a friendly gas station ought to be a little...
...counterman goes to a sink by the pay phone to wash his hands, and the man with the crossbite drinks down the rest of his cup. It is now 4:15--time to leave the Tasty--so the other customer finishes off his lime rickey, pays his bill, and walks out the door...
...other reasons usually proffered for takeovers don't wash here. Marietta wasn't yearning to be rescued from collapse--far from it. A Bendix-Marietta pairing apparently wouldn't have made for "stronger competition" or yielded "substantial economic efficiencies," as the skeptical Times observed. If anything, last month's corporate jockeying and the diverting effect it had on the stock market and the companies involved was downright inefficient...
Last spring Beverly Hills Hairdresser Umberto Savone noticed that the hair-raising price of a wash, cut and blow-dry ($35) was driving clients away from his fashionable Wilshire Boulevard shop. To lure them back, Savone unveiled the "mini-serve." For a trimmed-down price of $15, cash-conscious customers can get their locks soaped, clipped and conditioned. The blow-dry, though, is strictly do-it-yourself. Savone provides the equipment, but the client does the work. "Shops and real estate businesses have been closing in Beverly Hills, and our clients could no longer afford our regular prices," says Savone...