Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solipsism, a kind of holistic selfishness; other people don't matter unless they are players in one's own themed fantasy. It costs $150 a month just to keep a third of an acre green, and so the per capita water usage in Las Vegas is a gluttonous 343 gal. per day, compared with 200 in Los Angeles. The 702 area code has a higher proportion of unlisted numbers than any other. And although the per capita income is the 12th highest in the U.S., the electorate last year voted against building and improving parks. Officials say they need...
Whether she'd describe herself as a 'meat and potatoes kind of gal': Yes, definitely. Though a side salad is very important as well. Nutritional balance, you know...
...fantastic. She's a great athlete and a great gal," said Harvard women's hockey Coach John Dooley...
...income above $40,000, up to a maximum of 85% for those making $120,000 and up. The 58% of Americans whose incomes, including entitlements, range up to $40,000 would lose nothing. On the revenue side, the Concord plan calls for a 50 cents-per-gal. gas tax and a $12,000 cap ($20,000 for joint filers) on tax deductions for mortgage interest, a move that would affect just 5% of homeowners...
About 6,000 fire fighters scurried around the state, using every method from pumper trucks to air-dropped flame retardant to 100-gal. buckets slung under helicopters and dunked in the Pacific for refills. But they could not stop the flames while the ill winds blew. Before the week was out, the 1993 acreage devoured by fire would jump by 187,000; President Clinton would declare six California counties federal disaster areas; and California Governor Pete Wilson would say, "It's pretty heartbreaking to look down from a helicopter and see these little orange squares glowing in the blackness...