Word: popped
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Such maddening shortages are commonplace in this northern Ohio town. Once a Rust Bucket epicenter, the metropolitan area (pop. 770,000) has become a hub for auto-part exports to Canada and Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. Norton Manufacturing, a crankcase maker in nearby Fostoria, could hire 30 electricians, machine repairers and tool-and-die workers--if it could find them...
...PRISON POP...
...America's reluctant guest MANUEL NORIEGA spent his time since 1992 chez Miami's Metropolitan Correctional Center? Boning up on pop culture, it seems. In At Random, the in-house magazine of Random House, which is publishing his memoirs, Manny, as his co-perps call him, says he is familiar with "those all-important staples of American culture, the Wild Horse Saloon and line-dancing on TNN." His bedtime reading: the Bible and Deepak Chopra, as well as People and Men's Health...
...blame them? Over her nearly 15-year career as pop-music chameleon, sometime movie star and cultural provocateur, few have been able to avert their eyes from Madonna for too long. Her new film, Evita, which opens Christmas Day in New York City and Los Angeles and in January around the country, has been trumpeted with a publicity campaign so lavish and long winded that many people probably think the movie has already opened and they've already seen it. Evita is, to be sure, in many ways a landmark: the most ambitious musical Hollywood has turned out in years...
...block, say, programs that contained strong language and instead doing something that caused the set to transmit nothing but cooking shows. "Do something!" he says, turning to the child he's trying to protect. That child is Jeffrey at 14, who says, with a sly grin, "Don't worry, Pop. I'll take care...