Word: racks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cars as novelties. But last year, when the yen rose sharply against the U.S. dollar, Chrysler and Ford could afford to cut prices sharply. To their surprise, sales of the popular Taurus doubled, and last month the Jeep Cherokee became the first U.S.-made model in Japan to rack up more than 10,000 sales in a year. Clearly the fussy Japanese buyer who demanded a museum-quality body finish is in retreat; in his place is a worker whose income has stagnated during the country's recession and who wants good value for his yen. "What we have done...
...torrential rain showed no signs of abating through the day, large barrels were placed at leaky positions in the Science Center. Inside the Coop, an unusually large crowd of students was seen huddled around the umbrella rack. At Kirkland House, administrators kept a separate box for waterlogged study cards...
...tanks that were firing into Gorazde. Two U.S. Air Force F-16s swept in and dropped three 500-lb. bombs on some tents. The following day, as shells continued to pound Gorazde, two Marine F/A-18s tried to drop four bombs on the Serbs. One bomb remained stuck in its rack; two hit the ground but failed to explode. The planes swooped down in the wake of the bomb that did blow up and strafed Serb positions with cannon fire, wrecking three military vehicles...
...that brain-time were spent on contemplation, instead of on a movie destined for the back rack of Blockbuster Video within a few weeks, the solution to ethnic strife, or the Unified Theory might finally be discovered...
...wife moved into 30 years ago." His $45,000 salary, the literature insisted, was "less than the salary of the Chef who works at the Teamster headquarters ((for Carey's predecessors))." Press accounts trumpeted similar blue collar images: the beat-up car, the suits off the rack from Macy's, the five kids to support, the vacations spent in his Queens backyard...