Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company's components inventory to drive home a point: it's not the parts that matter; it's how they fit together that counts. Dennis Blommers, a plant manager for Magna's Decoma division, which specializes in exterior systems, has been along for much of the company's ride to success; he now oversees 300 employees who engineer and make high-tech plastic bumper covers and grilles for Chrysler, GM and Honda at a plant near the company's headquarters in Aurora, Ont., about 20 miles north of Toronto. "Each year we get more and more into what the customers...
...crass commercialism embrace in whirlwind of red and pink, of flowers and diamonds, of greeting cards and candy hearts. It is a time when soul mates rejoice and starcrossed lovers lament. On such a day, what do lovers do? Enjoy a quiet evening by the fireplace? Take a ride in a horsedrawn carriage? Dine in a five-star restaurant...
...younger than the other two performers, her lyrics lack a certain maturity and dexterity, both which are rescued by her smooth guitar-playing and a voice that creams over the edges of notes. In the space of a bar, her voice can turn from something on which to ride into some-thing on which to chip your teeth...
...Under the bridge lay everything real--all the issues the government could have been spending time and money on instead. But for all the complaints about how the bridge was a waste, a regular government boondoggle, many millions of people escaped the reality below by coming along for the ride. We got on the bridge last January (if not when the Gennifer Flowers scandal broke in 1992) and got off just days ago, with Clinton's acquittal. And aren't we a great deal closer to the 21st century...
...College, and more events of this kind would be welcome. But it seems that the implied definition of "social life" is unreasonably narrow and would not include skating on the Boston Common with your boyfriend or girlfriend, going to the movies or to an inexpensive ethnic restaurant a T-ride away in Boston or watching a Saturday afternoon game at Bright Hockey Rink between the top two women's hockey teams in the country. I wonder if it even includes going to a show at the Loeb Ex or the fabulous Hanlon-Ford Ball last weekend, where hundreds of ballroom...