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...giant semi raced through the night, across America from California to Brooklyn. Inside was a precious cargo whose street value in New York would be double its West Coast price. Thousands of packs were unloaded at one distributor's warehouse, then channeled stealthily to selected candy and variety shops. Candy shops? Yes, the cargo was destined to feed the latest kid candy craze: Pop Rocks. Says the Brooklyn distributor: "The kids are like junkies-hungry for the stuff. It's the fastest-moving new candy I've ever seen...
...everyone who approved of the series confessed that the production was not perfect; it was, after all, only TV-and three times better than that medium, with all its bad habits and commercial limitations, usually manages to do. Therefore (or so this argument unfairly implies) it is purist and precious, an ostentation of suffering, to say that the series was flawed, that it did not anguish stylishly enough before the abyss, over the race that went up the chimneys in smoke. The importance of the series was that, however imperfectly, it instructed millions, imprinting upon their memories an evil almost...
...settled has been building for weeks on the joint congressional conference committee that is wrestling with Carter's bill. Amazed and frustrated that a full year had passed with no energy legislation, Carter on Thursday afternoon told a White House press briefing: "We have wasted twelve months of precious time. We must have energy legislation without further delay." The same day, mock birthday parties for the bill were being celebrated by members of both the House and the Senate. On the House side, Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona and fellow Republicans carved up a large doughnut that...
...When this corporation issued a proxy statement in 1976 urging a vote against the resolution and claiming that "Infant formula products are neither intended, nor promoted, for private purchase where chronic poverty or ignorance could lead to product misuse or harmful effects," a group called the Sisters of the Precious Blood sued the corporation for allegedly violating the Securities and Exchange Commission law against making misstatements on proxy statements. Despite the fact that the nuns compiled over 1000 pages of first-hand documentation of the inaccuracy of the Bristol Myers claim, a U.S. district judge threw the case...
Blankets are strung across one end of the room to keep precious Nitaku balls from being lost under piles of junk and eaten by God-knows-what. The lighting is so poor that Harvard's team could only gain a competitive advantage if a tournament was held in the dark...