Word: dump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South Carolina in a flying saucer these days without anyone noticing. Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff of folklore...
...plastic egg that has carried L'eggs panty hose for more than two decades. The catchy container and wide availability at drugstores and supermarkets helped make the super- stretchy, reasonably priced product the world's best-selling hosiery. But L'eggs, a division of Sara Lee, has decided to dump its plastic egg and switch to an all-cardboard package. One reason for the change is to reduce waste. While the L'eggs plastic egg is recyclable and is often used by customers for arts-and-crafts projects, the new box uses 38% less material and is made from recycled...
Those who know the President best suspect that he has probably decided to jettison his deputy -- but not anytime soon. That would be too humiliating for both men. "He'll dump Sununu," says an official, "when there's a natural transition." But that might not arise until after the 1992 election...
...according to Cathy Bell, a Houston environmental communications specialist who was once married to "a redneck control freak" and found the courage to dump him after a liberating weekend trip with a girlfriend, "like seeing my life played before my eyes...
...sold of the old. At worst, Nintendo could end up like Atari, which in the early 1980s tried to replace a wildly successful video-game player with one that was more powerful but incompatible. Atari ended up with a mountain of unsold game cartridges that got loaded onto dump trucks and used as landfill...