Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orleans' crime problem poses a special danger because of the economy's dependence on tourism and conventions. They are the principal industries left in town. "If crime begins scaring off visitors, it could kill the golden goose," warns Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick. An equal concern is that crime and decay are impeding the effort to attract new business, which is vitally needed to replace thousands of energy-industry jobs lost in the 1980s oil bust...
...mood at the Alpine races was exuberant. The frigid temperature -- down to 1 degree F -- seemed only to stimulate flag-waving, cowbell-clanking Norwegians. Before the race they bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...
...going to whimper about the temperature, let me assure you that it's not the weather I'm talking about. Although the excess of snow may still be my most popular gripe and though my New England born neighbors tire of hearing me extol the virtues of the Golden State's perpetual spring, after two long winters I have almost grown accustomed to the idea that not all of my facial accoutrements will survive Harvard intact...
...come Lowell gets Golden Grahams and Leverett doesn...
Only Lowell gets Golden Grahams; as Lowellian Mike W. Chen '96 puts it, "Only Lowell's good enough to be golden." Quincy is the proud, sole recipient of Apple-Cinnamon Cheerios. Quincy and Adams share bragging rights to Complete Bran Flakes...