Word: minke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barbera's dilemma is increasingly common among American women. Until recently, owning a fur coat, usually a mink, was an unquestioned emblem of luxury and social status. But lately a growing cadre of animal-rights activists has been aggressively denouncing such garments as "sadist symbols" that, they say, require the deaths of some 70 million helpless creatures each year (about 50 minks for each coat). That emotional claim has touched off a bitter battle that pits the animal lobby against fur owners and an increasingly embattled fur industry. So nasty have the hostilities become that in some cities around...
...factory supplies its workers with food," said Selyugin, "but, all the same, you can see our problem for yourselves." Then he nodded toward the salesgirls wearing mink hats and added, "They're doing all right, though...
Telescam groups in several states employ a "grand prize" hook to sell useless water purifiers. Supposed prizewinners, who are advised by mail to call an 800 number for information, are told they will collect such awards as a diamond watch, mink coat and luxury car if they buy a $398 system that removes pollutants from drinking water. Consumers who buy the product receive a worthless contraption containing two small charcoal tablets. Worse, the prize never shows...
...Island, about ten miles outside Augusta, and he was forced to auction it off. His eight-year marriage to Adrienne, his third wife, has been tempestuous. Last April she filed suit against him for assault, then dropped the charge. (Among other things, he allegedly ventilated her $35,000 black mink coat with bullets...
Here's a partial list of the Crimson's nicknames: Kristen "Blando" Bland; Jamie "Jamer" Henikoff; Christina "Drago" Dragomirescu; Amy "A.D." deLone; Jacki "Farrey" Farrell; Tanya "T&T" Stasiuk; Nicole "Nickeloeb" Rival; Jennifer "Mink" Minkus. And of course the coaches--Ed "The Ed" Krass and Mark "Questionmark" Wesselink...