Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With chain restaurants, she says, "you have aformula, it works, but you could go to [Pizzeria]Uno's anywhere. A place like Charlie's [Kitchen]is more Harvard Square...
...downtown areas of all these towns and cities were once bustling centers of local commerce, replete with local stores and an individual character. Now those centers are modern-day ghost towns, with all the consumers having fled to the gold rush of national chain stores on the outskirts of town...
...notion of what the American West should be like. But it seems that it couldn't always have been this homogenous. Yes, Wal-Marts are now ubiquitous, and that Taco Bell chihuahua exhorts people across the nation to eat gorditas, but it wasn't always so. Besides strip malls, chain stores and other such monuments to consumerism, the other factor contributing to the increasing uniformity of America is the combination of cable TV and other forms of media saturation...
...Capitol Hill. Clinton's official supporters, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Dick Gephardt of Missouri, urged members to stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses were appalled by the President's behavior. Members were worried that they would be guilty by association--a chain the G.O.P. was beginning to forge in some ad campaigns in key districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious issues" to the top of the voters' agenda. They tie with crime and drugs...
Nine months after Princeton University began a chain reaction of financial aid increases at America's top colleges, yesterday Harvard joined the generous in typically spectacular Harvard style...