Word: racks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly reignited its engines. After a decade of losing ground to their Japanese rivals, Detroit automakers have been recapturing buyers and reclaiming a healthy slice of U.S. market share. The public's growing taste for Big Three cars and light trucks has allowed Ford, Chrysler and General . Motors to rack up welcome profits, following industry losses of $39 billion over the past two years. The recovery has also caught the eye of investors on Wall Street, who have bid up the price of U.S. carmakers' stock more than a third...
...target everyone can hate with equal passion is the legal system that placed two families and a child on the rack for 2 1/2 years. Even if the DeBoers, having fallen in love with the baby, could not give up without a fight, their legal help could have advised differently. The DeBoers should have relinquished Jessica immediately, argues Beverly Hills lawyer David Leavitt, one of the country's pre-eminent adoption lawyers: "Any good adoption lawyer understands that if a birth mother changes her mind within a few weeks, and you resist, you're in for terrible grief...
Invoking privilege of any sort goes against the picture of the down-home Arkansan whose natural populist tendencies served him well in the campaign. His Bubba barber of 17 years, his off-the-rack suits, the Governor's mansion with its tattered volleyball net -- these have given way to a Belgian-born hair stylist, Armani jackets and a private jogging track...
...phone companies, with their background in point-to-point switching, tend to focus on connectivity and anything that will rack up message units. They emphasize services that will generate a lot of two-way traffic, such as video phones, video conferencing and long-distance access to libraries...
...only thing that rescues his latest movie, A Leap of Faith, from a one-month rush to the Just In rack at your nearest video store is the audience's hope throughout that it will have some miraculous ending. And something miraculous does happen. The movie ends. If it's really about miracles, Leap of Faith better hope for some at the box office...