Word: landed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody in an old clunker and know the rider's just scraping to get by in another low-wage gig. They spot somebody in one of those jazzed-up numbers, a sport-ute or a low-riding classic, and it's a good hunch the occupant...
...report golden retrievers, big house cats and other similar-size animals as cougars. But Paul Beier, a biologist at Northern Arizona University, believes the recent confrontations between lions and man aren't just flukes. "The attacks aren't likely to go down," he says. "We're not making more land...
...steel-drum virtuoso Robert Greenidge. Eventually he brought in clowns on stilts and a storyteller for the children and sent bands into the parking lot to play for the fans. He launched a newsletter and later a website to sell his merchandise and was among the first stars to land a corporate sponsor, Corona beer. When Disney approached him about opening a Margaritaville Cafe at Disney World and performing at the park 10 nights a year, he called financier Warren Buffett, a distant relative, for advice. Warren told him Disney could be hard to work with, so he killed...
...newfound willingness to bargain is even more likely to be found at colleges generally less successful than Yale and Stanford in attracting the most qualified students. Many highly competitive schools have begun to use a thinly disguised form of merit scholarship to land prized applicants. If your family income is not low enough to warrant a need-based scholarship but your daughter is seen as something of an academic catch, she may well be offered an additional stipend to make her decision easier. Don't hesitate...
...training ground nearby, and nothing makes those Joes happier than blowing things up day and night. There's no running water or sewage system; an Imperial County official calls Slab City an environmental nightmare. The county wants to regulate the 640 acres and charge squatters a fee, but the land belongs to the state, which would love to dump it but can't find a sucker...