Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alas, the language barrier. Stewardesses ineffectually shouted "No smoking" at various volumes. Helpful passengers translated, "Ne fumez pas," but were unwilling to translate the Kings' frank responses. Just as we all seemed in peril of perishing of carbon monoxide poisoning, the flight crew wisely decided to show the in-flight movie, Forrest Gump...
...what might otherwise have been a pinnacle of her life. According to her father, ``she called her mother and said, `I'm the one who should be going to the Super Bowl, not his girlfriend.' '' Not long afterward she went to the garage, started the car and died from carbon-monoxide poisoning...
...example, Murray says electric power plants in China have multiple negative effects on the surrounding community, including problems with acid rain, dust and carbon dioxide emission...
DIED. RON LUCIANO, 57, former umpire; from suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning; in Endicott, New York. Luciano's 11 Astroturf-chewing years of calls and confrontations paved the way for a second career as a sports commentator and author of books titled with baseball-related puns...
Technologies ranging from the telegraph to the telephone, from typewriter to carbon paper have all made mass organization easier and cheaper. And since the 1960s, the technologies have unfolded relentlessly: computerized mass mailing, the personal computer and printer, the fax, the modem and increasingly supple software for keeping tabs on members or prospective members. The number of associations, both political and apolitical, has grown in lockstep with these advances. One bellwether -- the size of the American Society of Association Executives -- went from 2,000 in 1965 to 20,000 in 1990. As for sheerly political organizations: no one knows exactly...