Word: lemon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school, Brad would drive his brown 1978Ford Thunderbird 15 miles to school each day. Histeachers say he was the brightest and mostargumentative student they have ever seen. "Weused Macintosh here," says Bob Lemon, his computerteacher at Warsaw High, "and he's a very strongIBM person. We often talked about it....He's anexceptional personality who could talk to adultsas easily at students...
...says the recall is an indicator of a new attitude by automakers. "The industry is coming to believe recalls are not always bad but can sometimes be good business. They've come to regard this as a tune-up, rather than a public admission that your car's a lemon, especially if, as in this case, the recalls aren't associated with some sort of gruesome accident...
...month, raging about Waco. Authorities are now questioning Jennifer, a student at Niagara County Community College and a former barmaid at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Buffalo, New York, which features Jell-O wrestling, where women, dressed in shorts and a top, wrestle male customers in a vat of lemon gelatin. She apparently told friends earlier this year that "something big is going to happen in March or April, and Tim's involved...
...national newsmagazine the Herald: "The U.S. may do as it pleases in Pakistan--cut off aid, pressure it on its nuclear program, twist its arms over the drug trade, use it as it did during the heady days of the Afghan jihad--and then discard it like a used lemon...
...script provides a perfect framework for some winning one-liners. There is, for example, some insightful commentary from Ms. Ballzov. "When you've been sucking on the lemon of life as long as I have," she notes, "sometimes you have to pucker up and kiss it on the tuchus...