Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Brown and Darling gathered on Monday to unleash a slew of new schemes, the stakes for the Prime Minister - and the British economy as a whole - could scarcely have been higher. Central to those plans is the creation of a bumper insurance scheme that will permit banks to buy cover against losses on bad loans in the hopes that this will encourage banks to start lending to Britain's cash-strapped companies and consumers. Also announced: a $74 billion scheme allowing the Bank of England - Britain's lender of last resort - to buy high-quality assets directly from financial institutions...
...least one segment of the economy is booming: the market in Obama kitsch. The dedicated supporter of the incoming President need not content himself with a T shirt or bumper sticker. Also available are Obama coasters, lava lamps, jigsaw puzzles, mugs, skateboards, toy trains, CDs, DVDs and, of course, commemorative dinner plates. Ben & Jerry's is introducing a Yes Pecan flavor in honor of Obama's campaign slogan, and Marvel Comics is running a special Inaugural issue of Spider-Man. Pepsi has created the Pepsi Optimism Project with a red, white and blue logo almost identical to Obama's sunrise...
...help you do that, and Subaru has leveraged its existing customers, who identify more with their cars than perhaps is healthy. "If you stop a Subaru owner at sporting event, ski slope, shopping center, they'll tell you, 'I love this car,' " says Mahoney. And being the opinionated-bumper-sticker type, they are more likely to recommend the brand than even Toyota or Honda owners...
...oldest friend, whose daughter has an August birthday, holds her party at the local amusement park. The kids get bracelets that let them go on all the rides. They quickly outgrew the little trains but could ride the bumper cars; then they outgrew those but could take on the climbing wall. Now they prefer the roller-skating rink, where boys and girls hold hands. As with the pencil lines on the kitchen wall, we've watched them grow through their small rituals. If ambition and opportunity spin us off in every direction, traditions reel us back to where we came...
...local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except the proposed Bridge to Nowhere of course), there are few citizens who take up the cause of its maintenance and repair...