Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aerospace industry has been one of the top beneficiaries of the export boom. Last week Boeing announced a $4.8 billion deal to sell 23 new 747-400 jumbo jets to Korean Air Lines, which had earlier bought nine of the planes. All told, Boeing has 161 foreign orders for airliners, which range in price from $35 million to $130 million apiece. Even small U.S. firms have made impressive inroads abroad. Trilling Medical Technologies, a Carlstadt, N.J., firm of 50 employees that sells burn-protection products, has seen its international sales increase 400% during the past year...
...Bill is prepared to rewrite that line to read: "throw him in the super-jumbo cup of Diet Coke in the next room." For $40,000, Bill will move the scene to the next room and show the Duke actually being drowned in a large Diet Coke (logo prominently displayed). For $60,000, the murderers will also drink the Diet Coke and comment on its thirst-quenching qualities after their heavy labors...
...columnist Liz Smith of the New York Daily News, the shoulder La Trump chose to cry on when she wanted to tell the whole world what she thought of the man who had left her. They stood side by side, equals and friends and newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo settlement and the journalist turned dispenser of social eclat. While ordinary footsore reporters waited outside a restaurant for crumbs of comment, Mizz Liz sailed in to console Ivana in the guise of boon companion, swapped expressions of abiding misery, then hurried out to whip intimate confidences into a souffle...
Class--and complete dominance--best describe Masland's match against Jumbo Matt Trevithick. He played his ever-consistent, ever-strong game to extract...
...Crimson's third seed, Hope Nichols, dominated her Jumbo opponent as well, cruising to a 15-1, 15-4, 15-4 victory...