Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-years were gradually ushered out of the hotel at 1 a.m. Although the council attempted to provide enough transportation back to campus, the glass-enclosed trolleys could not accommodate the rush. Many students experienced problems obtaining taxis, and were left waiting in the cold for up to an hour...
...however, Rudolph had stopped at the local grocery to stock up on raisins, trail mix and eight packs of flashlight batteries. Then, apparently on foot, he vanished, leading more than 100 federal agents and local officers on a manhunt across rugged terrain right out of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain. Agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms armed themselves with semiautomatic rifles and bulletproof vests as they searched Rudolph's trailer and poked cautiously under neighbors' porches and in their barns. Helicopters clattered overhead, using infrared scanners that can detect body heat amid...
...time to contemplate Dostoevsky when there's a living to be earned?" One cannot say right now. Today's foreign invasion of goods is just another chapter in the long history of Russia's struggle with the West, from Peter the Great building St. Petersburg to the Cold War. As in many other countries in the growing "global market," Russians are starting to resent America's cultural imperialism and all its superfluity. Let's see what happens when Nike asks the people at the Kremlin whether they can sponsor Russia's immortal soul...
Actually, this clothing and linen specialty store chain, based in Canada, has 35 stores in the U.S. from coast to coast--obviously, the New England aesthetic is spreading (no shopper need be without his or her duvet cover). Also, belying its image, the store lacks that cold "look but don't touch" Victorian mentality. Signs literally plead with customers to "Please Touch," noting that "to fully appreciate the beauty of our prints, we invite you to unfold, examine, and explore their many patterns and textures...
With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of an information-driven economy, the world situation has changed, but the government's reasons for investing in science remain the same, the paper says...