Word: canyonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clemente's exploitation of his speed reflects his determination to succeed. This strong work ethic has helped fill the void left by last year's strong senior class--a void which once loomed as wide as the Grand Canyon, but now, thanks to the efforts of a redoubtable rookie, now seems thinner than the Nuggets' playoff hopes...
...many official duties need doing in places we all want to be in. And, ooh, the facts that need finding. An electric-power association believed the best way to inform members of Congress about utility rates was to send a dozen of them, with staff, floating through the Grand Canyon, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Utah Senator Bob Bennett and his staff logged $39,684 in paid travel including a trip for him and his wife to study international trade at Elbow Beach, Bermuda...
Once considered hopelessly unhip, J.C. Penney and Sears made their affordable house jeans cool. Penney's introduced Arizona six years ago; it's now a $1 billion business. Sears launched Canyon River Blues two years ago and just last year sales topped $200 million. By washing away the stores' image from that of the jeans, the once stodgy retailers have attracted the most discriminating jeans buyers: teens. In a recent poll of favored brands of jeans, conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, Arizona ranked second. "The very retailers we sell to have cracked the code on how to create and sell...
...collage, which he picked up where Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell had taken it. Rauschenberg's Combines, as he called them, were made of large-scale junk, his "palette of objects," linked or partly effaced by slathers of paint and often provoked by a single key find. In Canyon, 1959, it was a stuffed eagle that had belonged to an old veteran of the Spanish-American War, an emblem of flight and power that Rauschenberg combined with a photo of a small child gesturing upward and another of distant galaxies. Considerately, he supplied the bird with a pillow hanging...
...death to the National Parks Service. The government already has more parks than it knows what to do with, thanks to congressional pork--such as Steamtown (Pa.) and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Meanwhile, there's not enough money to keep up national treasures like the Grand Canyon. User fees at parks like Yellowstone have shot up like Old Faithful...