Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power, announcing, "Y2K's here!" Then he fires up the generator to see how many household appliances it can handle. "We've learned we can run either the coffee machine or the refrigerator, but not both at the same time," he says. "And there will be no hair crimping during Y2K," Diane reminds Danielle. "I'm not going to burn up the generator so you can crimp your hair...
...much of Asia will be catching its breath. How bad is that? At the outside, economists warn that the crimp on good times might lead to a worldwide capital crunch and a massive stock-market slide. But that is seen as a remote prospect...
...First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist, to rule against the FDA without a trial. Tobacco representatives argue that the next step is a total ban on cigarette sales. If enacted, the rule would certainly put a crimp in an industry where 90 percent of new smokers are under the age of 18. That's just the point, the Clinton Administration counters, that children under 18 are too young to make responsible decisions about smoking. Whatever the ruling, the tobacco industry is hedging its bets by aggressively expanding...
...such details, the arc of a relationship does begin dimly to emerge. A marriage that may not have been for love alone, nor for money, nor for political expediency grew to have a measure of each. "He did not object to marrying Jackie because it would put a crimp in his sex life," Klein writes,"...but he knew that marriage would bring certain wrenching changes. For one thing, he would have to trust Jackie with his deepest secrets." Both authors believe that ultimately he did so, and that the bond deepened as Kennedy realized how much the public loved...
Tupac Shakur isn't the type of guy to let a little thing like incarceration put a crimp in his plans. The rapper, who is the first singer to have an album reach No. 1 on the charts while in the joint, has married his fianca Keisha Morris. Shakur is serving a one-to-four-year sentence for sexual abuse. The honeymoon has been postponed...