Word: felling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...American health-food hit parade is a fickle thing. Not long ago, oat bran zoomed to the top of the charts because of its putative ability to lower cholesterol. It quickly fell back when it was found to work no better than other low-fiber grains. Margarine was considered a golden oldie on the basis of its zero cholesterol count until last summer, when it was discovered that one of the ingredients in the stick form could increase the risk of heart disease. Now there is a new contender on the playlist: canola...
...country on a giddy spending spree when oil revenues soared after the Yom Kippur War and the Arab embargo brought on the first oil shock in 1973. Venezuela squandered billions of petrodollars on luxury imports, high- visibility public works and a bloated state bureaucracy. When oil prices fell in the early 1980s, Venezuela retreated behind a wall of protectionism and a popular though inefficient system of price supports for local products...
...staying away because of increasing layoffs, widespread credit tightening among banks and climbing gasoline prices. Detroit has tried to keep sales up by discounting aggressively, but that has only hurt profits. When the Big Three posted their third-quarter earnings last week, the results were dismal. Ford's profits fell 79% from a year ago, to $101.7 million, its worst performance in eight years. Chrysler fared even worse, showing a $214 million loss, compared with a $331 million profit a year...
...women who fell for Taylor were, to put it mildly, unlucky in love. He abandoned his first wife when she was nine months pregnant and tried unsuccessfully to chloroform his second to death. Taylor brutally assaulted his third bride -- bright, insecure, eager-to-please Teresa Benigno of Staten Island, N.Y. -- on their Acapulco honeymoon. A year later, he bludgeoned her to death with a barbell, drove about the country for four days with her , disfigured body in the trunk and then abandoned car and corpse in eastern Pennsylvania. Under police questioning, he confessed to the crime but claimed that...
...objects fell into disuse and were in danger of destruction only because white settlers had progressively wiped out the Native American population over the last century. As Omaha culture was destroyed, the artifacts were no longer valued. They were, therefore, easy prey for eager anthropologists...