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Word: junks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company, owned by Houston-based junk bond wizard Charles Hurwitz, would just as soon swat this photogenic Butterfly off her tree. It has disrupted her sleep with air horns and floodlights, placed 24-hour guards around the tree in an aborted effort to cut off supplies from her support team, and sent in chain saws and helicopters to harvest around her. On a video distributed by Earth First, helicopter blades are shown churning the branches of Butterfly's aerie, as a hard hat shouts from below, "Get ready for a bad hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia Hill, Butterfly: Five Months At 180 Ft. | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...send unsolicited junk e-mail; people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ode to Technology | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...mail is great, but what about spam? All this unsolicited junk is clogging up bandwidth and becoming not only a nuisance, but a security threat to institutions and individuals. It is estimated that 33 percent of all e-mail processed by the world's largest on-line service, America Online, is junk mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ode to Technology | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...This is just another extreme: the waif lookvs. eating junk food in public," Casey J. Noel '01said...

Author: By Sonia Inamdar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Affirm Their Right to Eat | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Childhood Nightmares | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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