Word: heydays
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...back to baseball icon status in no time. Few players are so openly enthusiastic about the game as Sosa.? In terms of popularity, he?s on par with baseball's greatest Latin hero, Roberto Clemente, and in fact may be even more popular than Clemente was in his heyday.? His friendly spirit, community activism (he lends his name to everything from health clinics in the Dominican Republic to hurricane relief) and athletic abilities are an island of hope to otherwise cynical fans fed a steady diet of Ray Lewises and Albert Belles.? Fans are desperate to hang...
...would never know that it's an oil giant. It's a country nearly paralyzed by an energy crisis. Everywhere, drivers sit in endless lines of cars, sometimes for days, to buy gasoline. Electricity comes and goes. Homes lack fuel for cooking. Iraq's oil industry, which in its heyday produced 3.5 million bbl. a day, now produces little more than 5% of that. Refineries operate at less than 30% of capacity. But the picture belies a deeper reality: Iraq is potentially the most important new player in the global oil market. Although each day brings fresh accounts of breakdowns...
...grocery pioneer that was supposed to revolutionize the way people shop, is dead and gone, but the idea behind it lives on. According to Jupiter Research, consumers this year will buy more than $2 billion worth of groceries online--more than three times what they spent in Webvan's heyday back...
Taking place in Rabagliati's native Quebec during the heyday of Queen and Supertramp, "Summer Job" begins with Paul, the author's alter-ego, having just quit school and suffering the tedium of working at a printing press. Artistically inclined, he had acquired a government grant to paint murals on the school walls, but a ruthless principal pulled him off the job due to low marks. Bored, directionless and angry, the last stroke comes when Paul's pet bird dies. Luckily an acquaintance calls to offer Paul a job as a counselor at a woodsy camp for underprivileged children...
Recreational-vehicle sales are booming, and the appeal of RVs is much broader than in their previous heyday, the free-wheelin' early '70s, when they earned a reputation as gas-gulping retirement homes. Today RVs are being bought--and rented--by a younger and more affluent crowd. At the same time, more and more baby boomers are reaching the age at which Americans traditionally buy RVs. Some owners see their RVs as escape vehicles in case of terrorism. Other, stressed-out families just want to vacation without the hassles and worries of air travel--and bring a little...