Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Shanghai will be the land of plenty. Ran Yigang, a scruffy 23-year-old with the thick hands of a farm laborer, got off the train last week from Anhui, one of the poorest provinces. All day he searched in vain for construction work, then collapsed on a bag of clothing in front of the station. He considered whether to take a room for $2.50, a price he considers usurious, or hop a train in search of work elsewhere. "I wonder how people here get so rich," he says...
...parents came to visit last month, bearing gifts of food. Three suitcases full of food, in fact, holding a 60-count box of instant fat-free hot chocolate packets, a box of 20 microwave popcorn packets, an oversized two-bag Cheerios box, a container of chocolate chip and Macadamia nut cookies, and a whole box of assorted dried soups. Not to mention the 1000 plastic plates...
McCarthy added that "a bag doesn't spontaneously combust" and that the students involved in the incident "did something really dangerous...
According to Sgt. James McCarthy of the Harvard Police Department, the fire was caused by the smoldering ashes of plastic objects in a paper bag in room...
...Texaco's executives is a whitewash. The executive who referred to blacks as "black jelly beans" had indeed picked up this terminology from a black diversity instructor. However, his comment was a snide claim that Texaco's "black jelly beans" seemed to be stuck to the bottom of the bag--hardly as innocent as Leo implies...