Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game, 24-team World Cup soccer tournament opens in Chicago on June 17. But the off-the-field action has already begun...
That vanity trick has paid off for auto manufacturers, who are finding that these sports-utility vehicles, which typically cost between $20,000 and $30,000 and can come loaded with leather upholstery, cup holders and cellular phones, have replaced luxury cars like the Lexus as the baby boomer's favorite way to tool around the neighborhood. Detroit is rushing out increasingly pricey models, and foreign luxury-car makers are jumping in too. Just last week Chrysler confirmed plans for a large upscale sports vehicle that may sell for as much as $40,000 when the first one arrives...
Souvenirs: For the first time, a World Cup game will be played indoors. But grass will be placed over the artificial turf of Detroit's Silverdome. Organizers hope not-so-soccer-mad Americans will want to buy chunks of the grass at the end of the games...
...Lock: So many dignitaries, including Germany's Helmut Kohl and possibly Bill Clinton, are expected to pass though Chicago during the Cup that Rosalie Clark, city chief of protocol, says she has ordered a bunch of spare keys to the city: "I had only four left...
...while in America (the debate isn't about safety; it's about on-field performance). When soccer legend Pele weighed in on the pro-sex side, coach Carlos Parreira, who had said spouses could not accompany the team, changed his mind: "We are not going to lose the Cup because...