Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school. Look at him in his office, a gruff gnome surrounded by papers and notes, lost in a cloud of his own thoughts on the 1,200 Fourth of July fireworks shows that he will produce across the states...
...appears Dunlap had been "stuffing the channel," persuading retailers through discounts to buy more gas grills than they would normally need. This practice helped swell Sunbeam earnings in 1997 but led to this year's crash. Even Dunlap's huge success at Scott Paper is now under a cloud. Kimberly-Clark, which bought Scott for top dollar in 1995, is struggling to make the merger pay off. Profits tumbled 19% last quarter...
...otherwise known as Windows 98 officially went on sale at midnight, and despite the cloud of lawsuits peskily buzzing around, it looks as if Microsoft will once again be crying all the way to the bank. Despite Win98's mixed reviews, the early projections from industry analyst Dataquest say that it will account for 51 percent of all operating systems shipped on new PCs this year. Obviously, that will go up even more next year...
...frightening--is happening. In one country after another, flames are going where they've never gone before. "These fires are burning into virgin, humid forests that have evolved without fire," says Nels Johnson of Washington's World Resources Institute. "There is no historical precedent for the fires in the cloud forests of the Lacondon region of Mexico." Fire storms in the rain forests--the very idea defies common sense--have become an unmistakable distress signal from the developing world...
...ceremony. She ignites a propane torch and holds the blue flame beneath the smudge of powder in her clear glass pipe. Crank is smoked differently than crack cocaine; it takes less heat and melts instantly (burning away the impurities, Alicia says). Once the drug vaporizes in a white cloud, Alicia inhales. She then repeats the process. The residues in the pipe, called frosties, are infinitely valuable to crankers, and Alicia keeps torching them until they're gone...