Word: wised
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WELLESLEY,--Randall E. Wise had it all. A Harvard M.B.A. A profitable computer software company. But he sold his firm to follow a dream, a dream that one day he would supply contact lenses to all the egg-laying chickens of the world...
...Wise, 41, may be poised to become as important an inventor and entrepreneur as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. His red contact lenses are already on 100,000 chickens nation-wide, and his company, Animalens Inc., is growing...
According to Wise's calculations, that translates into an annual savings of at least 50 cents a chicken, or 2.5 cents per dozen eggs. With 1.2 billion chickens each laying about 20 dozen eggs per year, the savings could be as much as $600 million...
With such benefits, Wise is sure sure farmers will soon flock to buy his contact lenses. Which, by the way, go for a modest 20 cents a pair, or 15 cents if bought in bulk...
...Sally in the loving friendship of a thirtysomething mom (Kirstie Alley) and the cabdriver (John Travolta) who moonlights as baby-sitter. It has Hollywood's favorite premise, the fish out of water -- or, here, fetus out of womb. For the main character is a talking baby, in the worldly wise-guy voice of TV and movie star Bruce Willis...