Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants that. Better to be force-fed toasted ham and cheese than to give her cause to start up on the late thing again. She is in her trademark khakis ("look at this hole, from gardening at Fenwick"), black turtleneck, sweater tied over her shoulders. The Gap should pay her royalties. "It was the only sensible way to dress. Anything else was silly. Fussing over clothes. Idiotic...
...that time the plowman and his instrument were rooted in the American myth, a symbol of hard work, virtue and abundance that fed and freed most other Americans for pursuits beyond the farm. Plows of mounting complexity and size were hooked behind teams of oxen and horses and then to crude steam engines. In 1894 Nebraskan Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, decreed that the great seal of the Department of Agriculture would no longer have a shock of wheat in the center; it would have a shock of corn -- and a plow...
...Emack's fed us Chocolate, Vanilla and ChocolateFlake--their answer to chocolate chip. The icecream was icier and less creamy than the otherstores' fare. Chocolate was a bit bitter, with ahint of coffee flavor. The Chocolate Flakes in ourspecialty flavor were too small...
...customers who help the companies rack up these astounding sales figures all deny that they've bought into a fad. They don't deny the fad's existence; they simply blame the fed on other people...
That's how teledemocracy is supposed to work, according to Perot, the billionaire computer executive and putative presidential candidate. The concept has a certain gut-level appeal. To voters fed up with the paralysis of Congress and the special-interest outrages that characterize politics-as- usual, the idea that the citizenry might bypass all the musty machinery of representative democracy and directly influence the government seems enormously attractive...