Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first annoyance this past summer with a couple from Italy. "They drank our wine collection," Jerry griped. Well, the Italian couple drank about 10 bottles, Mary corrected, but they didn't touch the "good" wine, and in turn had left Jerry and Mary some bottles and food in their home in Italy. Despite this, Jerry says he would gladly exchange again, only not with them...
...problem" when they exchanged with a couple in Missouri who had neglected to get new license plates on their Mitsubishi, and the Bowes were stopped by the police almost as soon as they took it out of the driveway. "We can't use this car!" they called their home to complain. "Oh, sorry," said their swappers. "Just use the car in the garage--the white Jaguar...
...expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts is the day you get to go home...
...theory, there's plenty in the Financial Services Modernization Act for everyone. Individuals should end up getting faster answers and better rates on things like home mortgages and insurance, and corporate clients will be able to issue stock and buy directors' insurance with a single call. One-stop shopping for financial services up and down the customer ladder is mainly what this bill is about. Yes, you've heard it before, and, yes, it failed miserably in the 1980s. (Remember Sears, which added another dimension--buy stocks where you buy socks?) But with the government's stamp of approval...
...Winemakers in California and elsewhere They want to sell over the Internet and allow tourists to ship wine home...