Word: glut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action will not solve the paper-trash glut, which makes up 40% of the nation's solid waste. But Uncle Sam buys nearly 300,000 tons of paper a year (2% of U.S. sales) and may have the clout to change the industry's economics. Up to now, demand for recycled paper has not persuaded paper companies to make the huge investments in plant and equipment needed for recycling. So limited supply has kept prices high, which in turn has hurt demand. Clinton hopes government purchases will stimulate a much bigger supply, eventually cutting prices and making born-again stationery...
...Even the glut of bars, nude shows, and porn houses offer a way for some to escape the fear which hangs over the place...
...Weighing the vessel the acid is in and using that as the actual weight of the drug is analogous to busting someone at Customs in Miami for coke possession and then including the weight of the 727 that they flew in on. There is, as we all know, no glut of prison cells in America; the justice system chooses who will fill them with the severity of sentences that it hands down. Having non-violent kids whose drugs weren't worth enough to buy a good stereo having to watch three Olympiads from prison while attempted murderers get half...
...making us, uh, pillowy." Just go with the age theorists for a moment: unless you are the issue of Mick Jagger out of Twiggy, you will soften, droop and bulge with the years, as muscle gradually turns to fat. There is no argument there. The nation, with its glut of middle-aged baby boomers, is getting older. It is reaching again for baggy jeans (described as "comfortable fit" by some gentle-minded manufacturers). It is discovering "big girl" fashions...
When public TV was launched, there were only the three networks. You could watch Gomer Pyle or Land of the Giants or Lawrence Welk. Public TV was singular, glorious, redemptive. Today, of course, there is a democratic hurly- burly glut of cable and home video. Imagine if Americans had been presented in 1968 with a referendum: either a single channel broadcasting a mix of news, documentaries, children's shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with...