Word: clogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next to a new Toyota. Thanks to an income of more than $18,000 last year, Chicken...
...This fall's innovation is not philosophical--like some officials' previous, rejected proposal that students be required to reregister for courses--but merely procedural. The syllabi of all Core courses have been bound into a booklet for easy reference, thus eliminating, it was hoped, the crowds who clog lecture halls merely to pick up the reading list...
...Cocaine's are not. But according to people who have been dependent on both drugs, kicking cocaine can be tougher. "When they say it's not addictive, that's crap," insists Investment Banker Donald, who is struggling to beat his cocaine habit. "Just talking about it makes my sinuses clog up and my nose twitch." At Dr. Siegel's Los Angeles therapy sessions, deprived cocaine users, he says, sometimes "start crying for it, and get doubled over on the floor. It looks like a physical thing, but it isn't?it's psychological...
East Cantabrigians have strongly opposed the development of the facility since plans for the jail were announced two years ago charging that it would threaten public safety in the area and clog parking...
...building a wind-power facility, and the $21 million U.S. pavilion, which will house a giant movie screen and talking computers, is to be powered in part by a 5,000-sq.-ft. rooftop solar energy collector. There will be plenty of mindless flash and hubbub as well: clog dancing, exhibition basketball (featuring the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers) and football (the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers), high school marching bands, fireworks, clowns and a souped-up roller coaster that cruises at fearsome speeds. "The World's Fair is going to be a staggering success," promises Knoxville...