Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Potato research...
...Justice Department seeks to strip the citizenship of individuals who served in Nazi death camps. A case in point is Jack Reimer, an otherwise inconspicuous 74-year-old potato-chip deliveryman in Carmel, New York. U.S. authorities now believe that in 1941 and 1942 Jakob Reimer was a Nazi guard at the Trawniki SS training camp in Poland. Investigators claim that under interrogation last year he not only admitted having witnessed other Nazis massacre Jews but also acknowledged that he had opened fire into a ravine filled with the bodies of 50 Jewish men already gunned down by other guards...
...Home shopping, the ultimate in couch-potato marketing, seemed, at its cable- TV debut a decade ago, to be the natural successor to the shopping mall. But years of selling such schlock as silver bracelets and cubic-zirconia rings, plus a series of scandals, mired the medium at the low end of the retail business, even as it grew to gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring...
...spend 10 years. Split-levels sprouted in potato fields, Cadillacs grew fins, and families snuggled up to television sets, where they learned to love Lucy and eat prepared dinners prepacked in tinfoil trays...
...vote. They were hoping he might arrest the upward flow of wealth and generally take a stand with the oppressed and the harassed against the bigots and the bullies. But this never, even in a rhetorical sense, became a consistent Clinton theme. He dropped the gays like a flaming potato, suggesting they might serve in special lavender units; he abandoned the Haitians on their leaky rafts; he snubbed the unions by sticking to NAFTA and forgetting to raise the minimum wage; he cowered before the mining and timber interests. He felt for the underdog, as he never tired of telling...