Word: ikea
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sources: CDC, IKEA, National Confectioners Association, Bureau of the Census "Facts for Features," White House Drug Policy Office
...word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy, as if so jazzed they could hardly contain their insides...
...their second debate, they sat around a little half-circle table - I believe that was the "Politik," $169.95 in the debate accessories section of the Ikea catalog - and Gore came across subdued and humbled to a point. He didn't sigh. He didn't interrupt (much). He generally refrained from constructions like, "Let me explain why," "And here's how this works," or "Now let me put this in terms your puny man-brain can fathom...
...broadcasts five nights a week (starting July 5), and you get an idea of what so unsettled some continentals. Built from prefabricated modular units, it is perhaps the least homey-looking house $10 million can buy. The walls are lurid yellow and purple here, dead blue-gray there; the Ikea furniture is spare in the extreme. It is Martha Stewart's hell, a cold Bauhaus panopticon riddled with cameras...
...shows, hurdles are there to be leaped. Along with the German automaker last year, Ikea, Nestle, Caterpillar, Lucent Technologies, Ford Motor Co., Gillette and Philip Morris quietly added to their investments--nearly all built production plants with local partners, pouring more than half a billion dollars in direct foreign investment into Russia. In all cases, investors have developed a range of protection plans to help ensure that they prosper, even if that word is somewhat loosely defined...