Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dawn of Campaign 2000 it was the Republicans who were supposed to be host to a fight for the heart and soul of their party; and yet, as another candidate folded her bumper stickers last week, the G.O.P. has all but crowned a front runner who never misses a chance to be seen talking about compassion in a colorful sea of children. And even as George W. Bush drives in his big-tent poles all over the middle ground, it is Al Gore who finds himself locked in what looks like a real philosophical battle over the future...
America Onliners, rejoice! With last week's release of Version 5.0--the latest upgrade of AOL's popular operating software--you can do what everyone else on the Net has long been doing: automatically append a "signature file" to outgoing e-mail. Think of sig files as the bumper stickers of e-mail--your chance to personalize your messages. While mine has always been simply name, rank and fax number, the best sig quote I ever saw was the whimsical "I'd like to die in my sleep with a smile on my face like my granddad, rather than screaming...
PARTS IS PARTS? In the wake of last week's verdicts against State Farm, totaling $1.2 billion, the insurance company is temporarily suspending its policy of requiring body shops to repair cars by using generic bumpers, hoods and fenders. The no-names are cheaper but could end up costing more down the road. When Consumer Reports conducted 5-m.p.h. crash tests on a Taurus, the Ford-made bumper suffered minor damage that cost $235 to repair. A generic bumper shattered, causing $1,350 in damages. Until last week, State Farm made consumers pay the difference if they insisted on using...
...relatively ugly, pale-green placard lies amid newspapers, bumper stickers and documents in the offices of Harvard's largest union, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...
...escape Al Gore in the months ahead. What could have stopped the anti-Baptist? Police took several hours to take a look at his body, fearing that the corpse was booby-trapped, and they do not yet know whether he had a license for his weapon, an NRA bumper sticker on his car, or the membership card of some atheist terror cell...