Word: malls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heavy-handed and obvious themes, it has both unique twists--how Idgy disposes of the body of Ruth's husband--and hilarious scenes, such as when the transformed nineties-woman Evelyn impulsively rams the car of two sweet young thangs who have stolen her parking space at the shoppin' mall: "I may be slower, but I'm older and have more insurance," she yells triumphantly...
...disgusting what's happened to the Square," Henry said. "It looks like a mall now. You can go anywhere in town and get the same things...
...Fund survey of those ages 5 to 13 in one neighborhood found that 62% showed signs of traumatic shock. Teenagers were disoriented by the violence. Since the war, knife fights have erupted in schools, drug use is mounting, burglaries and vandalism have increased. Near a fashionable seaside shopping mall, teenage boys on motorcycles harass girls, and others race in flashy sports cars. Some of these youths were among the 400,000 Kuwaitis who left the country during the occupation and lived a life of ease in European and Arab capitals. Their re-entry into a restrictive society has disrupted...
Last week the dogged challenger was out stumping on Christmas Eve. At a J.C. Penney in Bedford, he bought five pairs of socks, pointing out that when Bush made a symbolic shopping-mall foray recently it was in distant Maryland -- and that the President bought only four pairs. Despite his pluck and energy, Buchanan has severe handicaps: low budget, frail organization and an obsession with ideology that may confine his appeal to the right wing. If Buchanan concentrates his fire on Bush as an uncaring patrician whose feckless policies devastated New Hampshire's economy, he could attract some moderates...
...duties (most notably, former Pentagon technologist Craig Fields). Led by the free-trade triumvirate of Sununu, chief economic adviser Michael Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman, the White House argued that market forces, rather than government, could best determine which technologies made it from the lab to the shopping mall...