Word: compaction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...commitment to the environment is a compact with your generation and the generations to come, and unlike too many politicians, my own commitment to this cause doesn’t ebb and flow with the dawn of each new election year. From the time my mother started a local recycling program long before it was cool, to the fight I led in the Senate to block the GOP from drilling in the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge, I have been fighting to protect our environment for over 30 years...
...kits. Favorites include “The Spa Kit,” “The Fondue Kit,” “Party In A Box!” and the very necessary “Fashion Emergency Kit” (which includes a sewing kit, a compact lint brush, double-sided tape, a black marker and a 32-page tip book). $5.95. Hidden Sweets...
...been an eye-drawing asset in previous performances, but it was a serious impediment to learning how to beat the life out of people. "My body type is the opposite of all the people who created these arts," she says. "They have a low center of gravity; they're compact. Then there's me. I'm like 5 ft. 11 in., all arms and legs, with a 2-ft. neck." The first time Thurman swung the 10-lb. samurai sword her character uses in Kill Bill's climactic duel, she hit herself in the head and nearly burst into tears...
Record companies blame file sharing for a 31 percent drop in compact disc sales since mid-2000—a number that may overstate the effect of sharing due to the contracting economy—but they should be finding ways to generate revenue that do not depend on litigation...
...want to know what we will drive and how we will kill one another (ergo Star Wars). We learn this curiosity early. Every year at my elementary school we would watch a movie about how we would live in the far future of the 1990s: the cars would be compact and efficient and would drive themselves; music would involve not just sound but holographic light displays as well. (In retrospect, this was a pungently 1970s view of the future: we would all ride our hyperintelligent Pintos to Laser Floyd shows...