Word: drawerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the most disciplined can resist the urge for better equipment, new hybrids, the latest indestructible orchid. Tools that were once an extension of arm and soul are now computer driven and high tech. Smith & Hawken, purveyor of top-drawer English garden tools, has grown from two guys selling ! tools nine years ago out of a California warehouse to a $30 million business...
...deprecation to parry charges that she was interfering unduly in affairs of state. "This morning I had planned to clear up U.S.-Soviet differences on intermediate-range nuclear missiles," she told a publishers' luncheon in New York City last year. "But I decided to clean out Ronnie's sock drawer instead...
Using the bills also saves the store money, Casey said, as it makes it easier to give correct change and prevents large losses from theft, because if two-dollar bills are used, twenties must be kept under the cash drawer and would-be thieves can't reach over the counter and grab them...
Cronin has noticed no change in her perception of external reality as the result of her foray into the New Age, but the experience has left its mark. "Before going out on a difficult assignment, I sometimes pull that energizing magic crystal out of my bottom desk drawer," she reports. "And I concentrate on the key words for the New Age: surrender and trust...
...wears on and she fields policy questions about nuclear arms, budgets, trade balances, airline safety. Strategic issues will not be escaped as they were by Nancy Reagan, who once joked that she had planned to discuss nuclear disarmament with her husband but decided instead to clean out his sock drawer. Liddy Dole will be expected to know -- and she will...