Word: flea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With numerous loops to hold tongs and sundry cooking instruments, chef pants have been popping up in unpredictable places---like on student backsides. Senior Brenna Haysom, who purchased her stylish slacks at a Gypsy flea market in Paris, now wears them when it rains because the synthetic material from which they're made (for obvious reasons) dries quickly...
...clientele, they are "smart girls or really skinny guys." Adeli, 33, was born in Iran and tagged along with her mother to the family tailor to watch him stitch clothes out of fine European textiles. Now living in New York City, she looks for ideas in flea markets or thrift stores, a sketch pad always handy. "I can walk around the city and still be working," she says. "I like to keep in touch with what's happening on the street...
...first play from scrimmage, the Harvard corners showed great discipline as Holy Cross called a flea-flicker. Collar handed off to the running back, received the pitch back, and threw downfield. Both Waller and sophomore Willie Alford stayed with their men, and Waller went up in the air and took the ball away from the Crusaders' Hall...
...still inexplicable gaps in federal regulation. The law, for example, allows gun owners to sell firearms from their personal collection without subjecting the buyer to the kind of criminal background check that a licensed dealer would have to invoke if selling exactly the same gun. This loophole has turned flea markets and gun shows--and the Internet--into Quick Marts for anyone needing an untraceable handgun. Guns remain exempt from consumer-product safety regulations, although those rules apply to toy guns. And penalties for crooked dealers still fail to recognize the societal costs of illegal gun sales. Says David...
...price gouging. Says a spokesman: "An AK-47 normally costs $100, but we always end up paying at least double." That is nothing compared with the cost for mortars and other ammunition, let alone for the high-tech antitank weapons the K.L.A. at Kosare needs. New K.L.A. recruits are flea-market soldiers, carrying illegally acquired (or stolen) guns and identified by K.L.A. shoulder patches made in Germany. Heavier weapons come largely from East European countries--including the occasional Serbian commander willing to sell for cash...