Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marketing blitz tied to the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. Pepsi will spend around $2 billion exercising its exclusive boasting rights to America's favorite slice of fantasyland. There will be collectible Pepsi cans emblazoned with Star Wars characters and gold "Yoda" cans of Mountain Dew, not to mention surprises in bags of Frito snacks...
Huling enters this weekend after going 8-for-13 (.615) against Yale last weekend and carries a .406 batting average with 5 home runs, 38 RBI and a sizzling .703 slugging percentage, not to mention an on-base average of .472. He leads the Crimson in nearly every offensive category...
...people and a memory. Turkey for humanitarian crimes and to secure the freedom and independence of Armenia. Today, the Republic of Armenia is less than one-tenth the size of historical Armenia, and Armenian churches and homes built on the Anatolian plateau have been destroyed or converted into mosques. Mention of Armenians in Turkish textbooks is almost non-existent, and books about the genocide are banned in Turkey, despite confirmation of the Armenian massacres in Ottoman court records, the testimony of survivors, eyewitness accounts of missionaries and diplomats and over 100,000 official documents in the archives of numerous countries...
...only mention of food in relation to Melville's Starbuck pertains to his flesh as hard as twice-baked biscuit and live blood that would not spoil like bottled ale. Starbucks Coffee, however, provides neither ale nor twice-baked biscuits. The name has lost all tinge of its literary flavor, evoking instead a mega-chain flavor--a status achieved thanks to our contribution of big bucks...
...world to visually entice audiences. And while Dr. Seuss knew only red and blue fish, Harvard students are privy to all these magical slippery scales. The fish range in size from one to two feet long, and although they are fed daily, they appreciate dining hall treats--not to mention the occasional suck on a meaty finger or toe. But have no fear, unlike the students at the business school, these toothless fish are not of the piranha persuasion...