Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saltaholic?" the insinuating voice asks, as the TV camera eye interrupts the hapless soul at his repast and observes him dousing dish after dish with a blizzard of deadly sodium chloride. It is a scare-the-consumer ad for NoSalt, a brand-new, fast-selling salt substitute. And a prime-time sign of the times. For salt has just pushed to the fore as the guilty food of the year- and maybe of the decade...
Different companies use different processing methods, many of them established before salt was thought to be potentially dangerous. Amazing differences from brand to brand of the same kind of product often result. A 6-oz. can of Del Monte tomato paste has a mere 112 mg of sodium; Hunt's has 610. A Kellogg blueberry waffle has 260 mg, while the same size serving of Aunt Jemima hits 352 mg. Canned fruit is salty when it is peeled with lye. Because peas are sorted in brine for canning, a tablespoonful of canned peas has as much sodium...
Trial by Jury, and persuaded the aspiring grand opera composer Arthur Sullivan to write the accompanying melodies. D'Oyly Carte's brand-new Savoy, to which Patience moved in 1881 from the Opera Comique, was the first theater in London to be lighted by electricity. The impresario himself had to reassure the audience that the innovation was safe. Today it is clear the troupe needs some fresh and electrical impetus and perhaps even a new Savoy...
...ranks of the jobless continue to swell, the nation might produce a new brand of Solidarity with a Lech Walesa waiting in the wings...
...attract much attention. Small in stature, she does not look particularly athletic. Sky in the presence of strangers, she is not one to best of her accomplishment, or even to talk about herself at great length. And once on the court, she plays an uninspiring brand of squash that is for more efficient than it is spectacular...