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Word: customs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really know what you want in a computer and want to save some money, your best bet is to shop at the local manufacturer. These stores build computer s on-site and will custom-build what you want, sometimes at hundreds of dollars less than name brands...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advice for Cambridge Computer Shoppers | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...Everyone has enjoyed impressive growth over the past year and offers rock bottom prices from components to custom-built systems...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advice for Cambridge Computer Shoppers | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...least publishers and journalists are only doing their job. But it hasn't taken long for the more opportunistic to seek a profit from Diana's death. One Web publishing company is sending out e-mail solicitations to news Web sites ? including TIME Daily ? offering a custom made "Princess Diana Screen Saver" as a "multimedia tribute." That way her image can be plastered all over your monitor lest you forget her passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Dares Profit from Di? | 9/4/1997 | See Source »

...year veteran officer converted 8,000 use-of-force reports into a statistical database, which he then used to re-create a blow-by-blow account of prototypical police altercations. With that information in hand, the L.A.P.D. assembled a panel of experts who spent five years testing new, custom-tailored apprehension techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN LOS ANGELES, A NEW ERA | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...junior year in high school, the girls in the Homecoming Court stopped wearing the hoop skirts reminiscent of the Old South because the principal said it was too expensive to rent and dry-clean the clothes. Though some might say that wearing such outfits was a silly custom, I think it is sad that a tradition so evocative of the region's heritage was stopped for such a pragmatic reason...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Southern Pride | 8/1/1997 | See Source »

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