Word: peps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Home is a trap, but at school the kid shucks all that and really blossoms. She's everywhere. The school dances, the annual town parade, the pep squad, the pick of the boys. O.K., so she's not an Einstein, gradewise, but she gets a college degree and dumps that dreary town and her painful homelife and heads for the Big Time...
...pep-rally enthusiasm at Saturn, the venture has given rise to a litany of doubts both inside and outside GM about the wisdom of adding another car line when the automaker's factories are running at only 80% of capacity. GM was forced to close 11 plants in the 1980s and is likely to shut four more plants in the next three years. Says rival automaker Lee Iacocca: "GM needs another car line like they need a hole in the head...
...halftime pep-talk...
Posing as "Cheyen Weatherly," this 26-year-old female impersonator enrolled at a Colorado Springs high school and even joined the cheerleading squad. After eight days and two pep rallies, he/she was arrested for criminal impersonation and third-degree forgery...
...century-old El Paso house that serves as their office, Guy and Holt have been busy striving to capture their sixth Miss USA crown. As the partners supervised fittings of Kuehne and Nelson in Guyrex-designed evening gowns, the two consultants delivered pointers and pep talks. For Kuehne, they had prescribed voice exercises to correct her high pitch and slight slur. To Nelson, who at 5 ft. 6 in. and 105 lbs. is too slim, they gave a gentle admonition to keep to daily milk shakes and peanut butter...