Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fair to say it's a drop in the bucket," Miller says...
Such maddening shortages are commonplace in this northern Ohio town. Once a Rust Bucket epicenter, the metropolitan area (pop. 770,000) has become a hub for auto-part exports to Canada and Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. Norton Manufacturing, a crankcase maker in nearby Fostoria, could hire 30 electricians, machine repairers and tool-and-die workers--if it could find them...
...mistake in the drug wars. I asked myself: "Did hypocrisy matter when Courtney was little?" Absolutely not. Without any reference to my own early years of experimenting with electricity, I insisted that she not stick her curious fingers into electric sockets. Don't grab Johnny's sand bucket, I would tell her, although I'm sure I was a major bucket grabber. Don't eat with your fingers, I instructed. Well, I still do that...
...Oxford, Kott ran other brokerage firms by operating through front men. Authorities weren't fooled. In his native Quebec, for instance, regulators yanked the license of one brokerage, L.J. Forget, citing Kott as the secret mastermind. Dutch authorities came to the same conclusion about First Commerce. Kott-related bucket shops have also been shut down in Britain and Luxembourg. In the U.S., by contrast, by calling himself a consultant, Kott has an ongoing license to work his stock-market alchemy...
Always he carried his white plastic ice bucket, the relic of a revolutionary agenda, of his achievement in ending the twice-a-day ice deliveries to congressional offices. The bucket stops here. It had become an inadvertently pathetic symbol...