Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect is clear: the new law will put extra pressure on bosses to decide just which aging employees they wish to keep on and which they want to remove as potential dead wood. Instead of letting retirement at 65 decide such matters, they will have to make some painful personnel choices much earlier...
...critique by black Africa is different but also pointed. Reports TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood: "The days of the ugly American may be over, as Carter said in Lagos, but some Africans feel that they are being given a superficial, kiss-off kind of attention, a razzle-dazzle diplomacy begun by Henry Kissinger and continued by Andy Young...
Indeed, there was a cornucopia of calamities in store for the field. One Columbia linkster, who played with Harvard's Spence Fitzgibbons, took a 14 on the wood-lined par five 18th in the morning and an 11 on the same hole in the afternoon. Fitzgibbons fired an opening 80 but billowed to an 86 his second time around...
...potentially damaging concentration of dieldrin in the sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each time they ate the food pellets. While the amount of dieldrin was not great enough to kill short-lived mice, Jones reports in Nature, it was certainly enough, over time...
...roads lead to rum and last month they went down to Winter Haven, Florida, chasing the Red Sox Spring Training Tan. They didn't really arrive until the day they wandered out on this teak-wood deck with an ocean view and thatched umbrellas over the ashtray tables where you set the kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey...