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Word: mulch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leased. IKEA expects to rent 30,000 this year. As a bonus this year, customers at most stores will get a coupon for a fir sapling they can pick up for planting in the spring. Once the used Christmas trees are returned to the store, they are ground into mulch, which customers can use in their gardens or leave for others. Better hurry, though: the sale started last week, and trees are expected to sell out by this coming weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Lease a Tree, Get One Free | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...since there can be no easy (or convincing) explanation of how a 1940s murder mystery finally gets resolved, with a little help from reincarnation, in the '90s. Yet despite all that boring talk, DEAD AGAIN is a hit, the late-blooming rose of a movie summer that was mostly mulch. How come? Well, as a director, Kenneth Branagh is all distracting bustle, briskly shooing us past his picture's many dubious moments. As an actor he gives a flashy performance -- two accents, neither of which is native to him -- in a dual role. And he had the good sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Late Bloomer from the Mulch | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...mason jars, sewing kits, to extend the life of life's necessities; and any $5 present that looked as if it cost $25. At the IKEA store in Elizabeth, N.J., shoppers could lease a Christmas tree for $20 and get $10 back if they returned it for recycling into mulch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ho Ho Humbug | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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