Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies also get the critical mass needed to compete with the aviation blocs created by American and United. The two majors each stitched together a quilt of global partnerships that could potentially outmaneuver smaller carriers like Continental and Northwest, if left to their own devices. Just last week a long-awaited air-service agreement between the U.S. and Japan was reached, opening up significant competition to Northwest's profitable Asian routes. American and United are expected to ink partnerships with major Japanese carriers...
After the service, mourners wrote their thoughts in two empty books and signed a giant quilt plastered with the names Umaer and Scott...
...Main Street looks authentically cute, attracting house hunters from Wichita fleeing traffic and gangs and drive-by shootings. At the senior center, the ladies are sewing a memorial quilt made of a late father's old dress shirts. "People from large cities find it charming," says Pam Lamborn, owner of the Jackrabbit Hollow Bookstore, gazing up at a pretty frieze of stylized Kansas sunflowers running across the top of the bowling alley. "But you know what's going to happen? The small towns are going to become the big cities all over again." Already nostalgia may have been oversold...
Peak development of quilt design by the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Amish...
...favorite band of Beavis and Butt-head. A generation has been all but erased. AIDS has paradoxically proved that gay lives matter, that the days when President Reagan refused even to say "AIDS" in public are past. Perhaps the post-plague years will soon begin and all those quilt panels and ribbons and T shirts will become relics or even flea-market collectibles. There was a debate recently over destroying some last sample of smallpox, contained in a laboratory. I wish I could visit the final AIDS molecule, cornered and shivering in some barren government crypt. No mercy...