Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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December 31, 1999 would roll around and the world would be whipped up into such a millennial frenzy that anything would sell. Stores stocked up on survival supplies. Tour companies began arranging fantastically expensive tours to the Pacific for customers who want to see the first lights of the year 2000. Consumers reported widespread champagne hoarding. Rumor was that CNN was busy composing the mother of all theme jingles for their millennium coverage...
...SHOP AROUND Prices for games vary wildly but are usually better on the Web than in bricks-and-mortar stores. Try beyond.com gamefever.com or amazon.com...
...fell some 5,000 oaks. Afterward students broke ground on the edifice, pounding two thick pine trunks end on end 10 ft. into the earth to serve as a central support. Last week came "the Push." With thousands of other students in hard hats and coveralls, he worked around the clock to hoist the logs and bind them into place...
...keeps vigilant watch over the project; a faculty adviser manages the site, and all the students undergo safety training. Cranes and other heavy machinery are operated by licensed construction workers, three of whom are on hand at the site. But it's not clear how many adults were still around at the late hour of the accident. Then there are questions about whether the work site was sufficiently regulated in the first place. Though at 55 ft. tall and a reported 2,700 tons, the finished tower could rival an apartment house, no building permit was required...
...rifles, some well-worn M-16's, have been a little disappointing. Mostly we just carry them around - our first trip to the range is weeks away - and our first attempt at zeroing our sights, on Friday, was a disaster...