Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbus' statistics should cause people to be alarmed for the well-being of the animals: 12,000 dead animals collected from the city streets and 28,000 animals destroyed in one year because no one wanted them. With health and police costs added, it is no wonder that city halls are greatly concerned about fostering greater owner concern and responsibility. In this seemingly throwaway society, pets must not continue to be a temporary toy and whim that is cast out on the streets when people exhaust the initial novelty...
...during 1972, ITT Corp., the giant multinational conglomerate, finds itself in a new scrape. Last week the Federal Trade Commission charged that the ITT Continental Baking Co. Inc., a subsidiary and the nation's biggest baker, had engaged in illegal pricing practices to monopolize markets for its Wonder bread. The FTC asked that Continental be divided into two or more separate firms; in effect, ITT would have to sell off half of the subsidiary...
...Continental are old antagonists; in 1971 the agency charged that Continental was misleading the public when it implied that Wonder bread was something special, in ads that claimed the loaf "helps build strong bodies twelve ways." Now the agency accuses ITT management of nagging Continental to build itself up too rapidly; James Halverson, director of the FTC'S Bureau of Competition, says that "ITT set profit and market goals for ITT Continental that forced the subsidiary to adopt predatory practices." According to the FTC complaint, Continental practiced a classic monopolistic scheme: it would use high profits from areas where...
Turner, despite his taciturn and obstinate gruffness, could be pricked to tears by a stupid notice. "Soapsuds and whitewash!" he complained to Ruskin. "I wonder what they think the sea's like? I wish they'd been in it!" Turner's most Leonardesque aspect was the deep pessimism that went with his long investigation of nature. In the works of his maturity, human life is merely an eddy in elemental time. His love of full-bore catastrophe is indicated by the most Turneresque of all his titles, an Alpine scene: Snowstorm, Avalanche and Inundation...
...last month as a full-time columnist-reporter has now begun," began the countdown by Joseph Alsop in his syndicated newspaper column. The acerbic Washington watcher has been alluding to his upcoming retirement so often in recent columns, however, that some readers began to wonder whether he might be setting the stage for a series of farewell performances, like...