Word: customize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great runner, one of the best. As you assess the new track, you don't see a possible defeat but instead another victory. Many of you have trained for this race your whole lives with personalized coaching and custom gear. Others have just stumbled across this place on your way to some other place. All of you are ready...
...that once skimped on holiday decorations have hired a singing harpist for the lobby. There are 50 kinds of mustard at the supermarket, and at the Tops in Buffalo, N.Y., sales of shiitake mushrooms have doubled this year. Clinique is marketing a perfume called Happy, and Levi Strauss sells custom-fit riveted jeans based on customers' computer-detailed specifications. The youngest donors ever to endow a chair at Stanford are the founders of Internet browser Yahoo!--even the chair comes with an exclamation point...
...joining the teenage boys who once dominated the sport. This year's trends include a longer board with deep side cuts that allow snowboarders to descend all kinds of terrain with greater control. Among the hot models: the Search by Sims ($365), Salomon's Directional 163 ST ($420), the Custom by Burton ($430) and Avalanche's Sanders148 for women...
...Tuesday evening it was clear that the hearings' emotional center was not the past but Hall's fears for the future. His primary frustration involved a long-held industry custom. Designers have always--"since the first airplane," noted Daniel Cheney, an FAA manager--understood the dangers inherent in cramming electricity into a narrow airborne hull with the flammable vapors that can result when a tank is hot and mostly empty, but they have addressed the problem primarily by isolating or eliminating the sources of possible sparks. Their assumption that further precautions involving the fuel tanks were unnecessary has historically been...
Driving on the highway, I am stuck behind a black delivery truck from East Coast Custom Car. On the back of the truck in bright yellow lettering is a list of things sold at East Coast Custom Car: stereos, alarm systems, bed liners, 4X4 accessories, trailer hitches, fog lights, wheels "and so much more." I make a note to include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish...