Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sheehan's, officially Matthew F. Sheehan Co., has specialized in religious goods and liturgical paraphernalia most of the last century...
...nation's poorer areas, however -- places like Washington's Anacostia neighborhood, the hollows of Appalachia or Miami's Liberty City -- families with IBM Activas, NEC CD-ROM drives, modems, Internet connections and all the other paraphernalia so beloved by computer users are few and far between. Therein lies one of the most troubling aspects of the emerging information age. In an era in which success is increasingly identified with the ability to use computers and gain access to cyberspace, will the new technology only widen the gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, blacks, whites and Hispanics? As Commerce...
Dunn, who said she studied English for twoyears as a Harvard undergraduate, took photographsof fraternity paraphernalia and the two bedroomsin the house. "I just snapped pictures and then Ileft," Dunn said...
...underground terror spree to extort money from the city's transit authority. The man, 49-year-old Edward Leary of nearby Scotch Plains, N.J., was arrested in his hospital bed early today after he was found badly burned two stops from the disaster site and police discovered bomb-making paraphernalia in his apartment. Investigators said Leary, an unemployed former computer technician, likely intended to have the bomb go off on the subway while it crossed an underwater tunnel from Manhattan to Brooklyn -- after he had disembarked. But the device -- made with two mayonnaise jars, gasoline, 9-volt batteries...
...best- selling physicist (A Brief History of Time) who made a guest appearance in an episode of The Next Generation, playing poker with holographic re-creations of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Rachelle Chong, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, has decorated her office with Trek paraphernalia and dressed up as Captain Picard for Halloween. "I like the show because it shows me tomorrow," she says. And sometimes today: the cellular phone-like communicators used by the Trek crew back in the 1960s are almost exact precursors of the personal-communication systems the FCC has just begun issuing...