Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...north in Beijing, China too is on a capitalist splurge. Every block has its own office tower and luxury hotel under construction, and everybody is an entrepreneur. On a visit with American journalists to the Great Wall, where you can now get a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two middle-aged former Marxists share their experiences of trying to make it big in the new China. One is marketing a spray said to kill hiv, the virus that causes aids. The other is trying to develop a Buddhism theme park...
...Crimson Sports Grille. It's also what you'll pay Pizza Ring some evening when you and your suite-mates decide you can't live without the Super Price Blaster Special, or what you'll shell out for a ticket to a movie at Loews and a large bucket of buttered popcorn...
They gathered last week outside supermarkets and shopping malls in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington and other U.S. cities, carrying signs and posing for TV cameras in goofy-looking cow suits. A young woman in Manhattan dumped a bucket of milk onto a frozen sidewalk. A man in Madison, Wisconsin, dragged white plastic cartons stamped with the skull and crossbones up the steps of the state capitol. Two dozen demonstrators marched in front of Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center with a banner that read stop the "frankenfood" -- save the cows...
...rest of the game would be all blue--Wildcat blue, that is. The twin-sister tandem of Marcie and Meaghan Lane destroyed the Harvard defense, driving hard to the bucket when coverage was tight and hitting the jumper when coverage was loose, and the other Wildcats followed their lead. UNH took a 58-55 lead with nine minutes left and never looked back...
...official fire fighters all day. Outside on his patio, an ember alights on a flower and incinerates it. The phone rings. It's his wife. "Yeah," he says. "I have it under control right now, but I'm in trouble. O.K. . . . I'll call you back." He fills a bucket in his basement and heads back to the roof...