Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...IKEA's 6.2-acre furniture store in May created nightmarish gridlock usually seen only for the nearby Giants football games. More than 25,000 eager shoppers heading for the Swedish-owned store jammed the New Jersey Turnpike, and 200 others camped in the parking lot overnight to get first crack at the firm's $39 bookcases, $7 rag rugs, $98 pine beds and other basic furnishings. Parents could drop off their children in a play area supervised by store employees before turning to serious shopping. A lunch counter served plates of Swedish meatballs and boiled potatoes (price...
...Titan safety Julio Fernandez said after the game, "These guys have heart." Playing football for free may sound romantic, but players who supply their own jockstraps and hold down day jobs must have an unyielding determination to crack the bigs, an undying love for the game, or a screw loose. Or all three...
Psyches unravel. Odysseus and Chevy Chase become role models. Marriages crack. And the kids? Don't ask. It's summer-vacation time. The skies are jammed, the interstates gridlocked. Getting there demands endurance, adrenaline and maybe a good lawyer. Hardened travelers know the holidays do not really begin until they arrive at their destinations -- and the luggage is finally found...
Mazowiecki may be hoping that, by removing the issues, he can demonstrate that the trade unionist's presidential bid is firmly rooted in personal ambition. He might be hoping as well that, in return for a crack at the country's top job, Walesa will allow the government to get on with governing...
...Crack down on such illegal, but largely tolerated, anti-competition tactics as bid rigging and price fixing. With more competition in Japan, U.S. companies will presumably have a better chance to break into Japanese markets...