Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke, trying to get the business underway, and driving a cab is the kind of job you can just go out and get," he says. "It was the first time I wasn't moving paper from an 'in' box to an 'out box--I felt like I was really doing something...
Next Wu had his turn at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testifying that everything from paper clips to Christmas lights is being manufactured by unpaid convicts and then sold cheaply--and illegally--in America. MFN opponents accuse the Clinton Administration of turning a blind eye toward Beijing. Even George Weise, who heads U.S. Customs, the agency charged with preventing the import of prison-made goods, admits lamely that "we simply do not have the tools" to carry out that mission. Weise admits the agency is similarly tool-less in spotting mislabeled apparel imports, which amount to at least $2 billion...
...soccer team. Gayla says she and Marc had dinner with Flinn and Thompson and another couple after a soccer game on June 30. She recalls Flinn and Thompson flirting, joking about marriage. "She said, 'Where's my ring?' and held out her hand," Gayla remembers. Thompson fashioned a paper ring out of a napkin, and he put it on Flinn's hand. Gayla says Thompson had drunk too much to drive home, so after dinner Flinn drove...
JOAN KROC The Grand Forks, N.D., "angel" who disbursed $15 million to flood victims is unmasked by the local paper, but that only burnishes her halo...
...good" carpet.) He also described how light passing through a negative onto a sensitive surface creates a positive image. I was nine and reasoned as follows: if the sun tanned my skin and if it burned through a negative to make a print, my skin might be like photographic paper...