Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Travelers who drive far enough into the parched interior of Australia, taking care to lug extra fuel, water and minor spare parts, enter a region of outback so distant and featureless that it lies beyond the reassuring certitude of maps. So says Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital at the outset of her grim, millennial novel Oyster (Norton; 400 pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading...
...nuisance to lug around gas masks and protective gear, but no one complains. For the troops on the ground, the greatest fear is of chemical attack, a strike by an enemy they cannot see. The closer to the front, the more raw the nerves. mres, or Meals, Ready to Eat, are the soldiers' most accessible enemy. Everyone hates them. Egyptian soldiers refused them. Only ravenous Iraqi prisoners of war wolf them down--including the chewing gum. When the milk runs out, there is pineapple drink to pour on the cornflakes...
...remain a nation of committed Twinkie eaters even while welcoming organic foods to the table. Consumers aren't willing to pay a hefty premium for organic, nor do they want to give up any of the conveniences of shopping in large stores that stock everything from soup to lug nuts...
...American roads these days the fixation is on brawn and horsepower: trucks now outsell cars, and minivans and sport-utility vehicles lug the family around. (By the way, where's the New Age VW Microbus?) VW tried to cover itself by putting its tiny new number on steroids, offering the front-wheel-drive Beetle with a V-6 engine producing 150 h.p.--more than double the horses of the original. That may help some. But General Motors chairman John F. Smith declares, "Little cars don't sell here anymore. They're gone. The small car in America has disappeared. They...
...hardware side, developments have been just as fruitful. As a testimony, last week I purchased 3Com's PalmPilot and already wonder how I lived without it. No longer do I lug around a three-inch binder with calendar, meeting minutes and financial info. Instead I slip the wallet sized Pilot into my pocket...