Word: lane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan, which encouraged employees to increase store business by suggesting that customers order such items as a king-size drink or a slice of pie, worked so well that some employees boosted their wages more than 75 cents an hour during the first quarter, from about $4.25. Says Wendy Lane, 23, a restaurant worker in St. Clairsville, Ohio, who added $70 to her paycheck in March: "All I had to do was a little bit more to make our guests happy. What it all comes down to is that the bonus was a real motivator...
...joke she does not quite understand. Watching her reminds one wistfully of tart, smart Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys. But you can't have everything, and considering the difficulties of its creation, The Marrying Man is something: a comedy that bounces skittishly down a lane that memory has not traveled in a while. Maybe it's silly. But it does awaken a nostalgic fondness for an era when celebrity dreaming was goofier, giddier and less consequential than...
...Newscar swerved to avoid the insulation and smashed into and bounced off a Jersey barrier, spinning across three lanes of oncoming traffic and coming to rest against a wire guard rail in the breakdown lane...
...groups--the CRT and the Watershed Association--are taking legal action principally to block Scheme Z, the highly controversial design for a mammoth 11-story, 16-lane highway interchange over the Charles River in East Cambridge...
When Vukonich takes the puck and goes with it, he flies. At a recent practice Vukonich raced Assistant Coach and speedy 1989 Hobey Baker Award-winner Lane MacDonald in a race to see if the rest of the team would have to do wind sprints. Vukonich prevailed and practice ended early...