Word: crop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unusual crop of candidates is aiming for Capitol Hill...
Bitterness toward the entrenched Washington elite and anxiety over the economy have produced a bumper crop of unconventional challengers. Major-party candidates for Congress run the gamut from a gay Republican activist in Los Angeles to a former Black Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House...
...Only a new seed can yield a new crop," said Hagelin, a quantum physicist with a 1981 Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the candidate of the recently formed Natural Law Party...
...BOTTOM LINE: This is a Jamaican bumper crop of the last great soul music -- and some of the best ever...
...more and more computer users complaining of wrist and arm injuries, keyboard designers are taking a fresh look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...