Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legs eventually straightened out, and sexual esteem blossomed when the author became a Manhattan career gal in the swinging '60s. The challenge became learning the difference between love and sex because, fortunately for Friday, "once my looks arrived the opportunities for both multiplied." She trippingly recounts happy sexcapades she experienced while wearing a foam-green Pucci dress, and genuinely seems to wish that all women would permit themselves similarly satisfying sensations, foam-green Pucci or not. The right to feminine satisfaction can extend well into midlife, as Friday proves by describing her romantic first date with and subsequent marriage...
...male--have little appreciation for or awareness of the history of the blues. Noisy, beer-bottle-breaking audiences sometimes drown out acoustic musicians. "They're not paying attention. They're just out to have a good time," says Michelle Willson, lead singer of the Boston blues band Evil Gal. "I've had people come up to me at the House of Blues and ask, 'Do you think Dan Aykroyd is going to be here tonight...
...hardly unique. Thousands of frustrated flushers have joined what is turning into a low-flow-toilet revolt. In Maryland homeowners are picking up large-capacity models at yard sales. Affluent Angelenos are buying two toilets: a new 1.6-gal. low-flow for show and an old 3.5-gal. tank that they install after the building inspector leaves. "It's been my biggest call-back," says contractor David Leonard of Indianapolis, Indiana. One customer required seven trips to service a perpetually clogged low-flow. "I don't know what this guy eats," says Leonard, "but we keep having to plunge...
Unfortunately, none of these systems are worry-free. The instructions for the popular Brita pour-through carafes, for example, tell customers to change the filter every two months or after every 35 gal., whichever comes first. But many people don't count the gallons they use, and if they forget to check the calendar, they can wind up with filtered water that is in worse condition than the stuff that comes from the tap. PUR, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has capitalized on this all-too-human habit by marketing a filter that automatically shuts itself off when it has expired...
...gasoline price hike into perspective [BUSINESS, May 13]. In 1941 when I was 18, I paid 18[cents] to 20[cents] per gal. for my 1933 Plymouth. In 1941 I was earning 40[cents] an hour as an electrician's helper. So I worked half an hour to buy a gallon of gasoline. Compute your hourly earning against the present gasoline price for each gallon; gas is cheaper now than it was then. JIM CURRAN High Island, Texas...