Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the pants have been appropriated, the only thing left to do is to abscond with the sparkling snow white jackets and transfer to the Cordon Bleu...
...walks into a major department store in Paris wearing Caterpillar boots, a Jack Daniels cap, Club Med shades, a Cadillac polo shirt and Marlboro jeans. He smells ruggedly of Chevrolet aftershave. He buys a set of Le Cordon Bleu cookware for his wife and a Jeep radio-CD player for himself. To pay, he flips opens his Harrods leather wallet and whips out a Jaguar Visa card. He's branded to the hilt, and the embodiment of European consumerism for the new millennium...
...past, plumbing was a big problem, and there was only one shower for all the guests, in the men's bathroom - so every time a woman needed to shower we had to cordon off the men's room," says Jennine B. Mazzarelli '01, an emergency director for the shelter. "Now the bathrooms look great--there is a shower in the women's room too, and overall the place looks much more welcoming - which is important if you're trying to give people a real home to live...
...then politics turned into a rich man's game, played out in White House bedrooms and over $100,000 plates of chicken cordon bleu. Anyone seeking angst and tension--as well as grit and struggle and nobility of spirit--was obliged to turn to sports. And turn we did, with our hearts and souls. In the town of Green Bay, it is now not only possible but unremarkable to be buried in a green-and-gold casket, if not in an entire Packers uniform. Philadelphia has had to build a courtroom into Vets Stadium to deal with fans...
Still, it was not much fun. A large section of downtown near Olympic Park remained blocked off Saturday. Fans with tickets to the hotly anticipated track-and- field events Saturday arrived to find flags flying at half-staff and a dense cordon of security around Olympic Stadium. Basketball lovers at the Georgia Dome were forced to wait in extra-long lines, as several entrances were closed. And at Lake Lanier, where rowing finals were taking place, soldiers toting machine guns patrolled the grandstands. It did not look much like America. But it was. --Reported by Mark Coatney, Adam Cohen, Sally...