Word: exoticism
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-- VCR machines, exotic and expensive toys just ten years ago, have found their way into 60% of American homes, according to Nielsen. A study by Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research firm, found that the typical VCR household rents 4 1/2 movies a month, and such viewing has almost...
I decided to go the Adventurous route and order squid, which was of course a mistake. Squid is sort of a standard weirdo; just strange enough to be repellent, but not actually exotic enough to warrant wading through.
While many Harvard students spent the summer slaving away in musty offices to earn extra money, some seniors relished in the ambiance of exotic foreign countries--and some of them even got a tanned leg up on their thesis research.
Summer research can prove invaluable to those students who wish to pursue exotic--and not so exotic--topics for their theses.
Poultry farmers, fishing fleets and cultivators of exotic flowers were wasted by Gilbert. Foreign-owned shoe and clothing factories that had been lured to Jamaica's tax-free zones suffered heavy water and structural damage. The unemployment rate, already 22%, was expected to soar as jobs vanished in the wind...