Word: gallons
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...obviously inoffensive, and so clearly practical, that the contempt must be rooted in something deeper than mere taste. Part of it is the timeless lure of male fantasy. There were days when I myself refused to leave the house without my chaps, my six-gun and my ten-gallon hat. Or rather, my two-gallon hat. I was six years old. I thought I was Marshal Dillon. Nowadays a successful yuppie won't leave the house without his four-wheel-drive sport-utility vehicle boasting 225 lb.-ft. of torque. He's 40 years old, and he thinks...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.: A Miami woman says she saw Fernando Carreira, the caretaker who alerted authorities to the whereabouts of Andrew Cunanan on July 23, carry a lunch box and a gallon of milk into the houseboat two days earlier. Lola Dudley, 57, says she was switching buses down the block on July 21 when she saw Carreira enter the houseboat carrying food. If true, the account would contradict Carreira's claim he had not been at the houseboat for five days, and would indicate a possible connection with Cunanan. Police are treating Dudley's story with care, noting that...
There are no revelations in Uneasy Rider, and Bryan's occasionally aimless doodlings don't always get many miles to the gallon. But he does explain (in a footnote) why the Chevy Caprice is "the unofficial freedom-mobile in the Middle East"; that cows in Arizona used to feed on cantaloupes and honeydews; and why Sierra Blanca, Texas, receives 225 wet tons of New York City sludge each day. Listening to the routinely outsize tales of ordinary Americans with an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford, he suggests that distance makes the head grow fonder too. People who buy snakes...
...construct the CPI the Bureau of Labor Statistics checks the prices of a "market basket" of some 90,000 products and services--everything from a half-gallon carton of milk to the daily rate of a hospital room. They are given weights that are supposed to represent a typical family's buying patterns--so much for food, so much for movie tickets, so much for auto insurance. But the current market basket represents buying patterns in the years 1982-84, not those of today...
...dilemma posed by Walker, Texas Ranger, the square-jawed CBS detective show that stars Chuck Norris. You are unlikely to find much about Walker in the pages of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY or any other bible of what is, and isn't, hot. And yet, as sure as there are 10-gallon hats filling the Lone Star State, there are Americans forfeiting a good time out on Saturday night to stay in and catch another not very nuanced performance by the anachronistically masculine Norris. Now in its fifth season, Walker is regularly ranked among the nation's 20 most popular shows...