Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stealing that pretty little evergreen from a neighbor's backyard and setting it up as a Christmas tree in your living room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent...
...shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side of the room and men into the hall. "We thought it was a joke," said Bouchard. They learned otherwise when the gunman pumped several rounds into the ceiling. Shouting, "You're all a bunch of feminists!" to his women hostages, Lepine opened fire, killing six on the spot...
...Willemstad, the sunny Caribbean capital of the Netherlands Antilles, a banker ushers an American visitor through a hotel casino and into a dining room overlooking the harbor. During refreshments, the prospective customer says he expects a six-figure cash windfall soon and would like to bring the money "quietly" into the U.S. At first the banker responds cautiously. "This money isn't, ah, tainted, is it?" When the American assures him it is not, the officer of the Curacao branch of the French-owned Credit Lyonnais Nederland smiles and orders another tonic water. In that case, says the banker...
Perhaps neither liberals nor conservatives will win, but the religious fundamentalists will. In this case, prepare for the '80s to be labeled the Decade of Satan. After all, Satan did force Jim Bakker into that motel room, and Jimmy Swaggert into that car. Satan made the Supreme Court rule against school prayer and for the right to flag-burn. And Satan did lure Don Johnson into a singing career...
...addition, the editors seem to feel that stereotypes play the major role in a student's decision to live in a particular house. They ignore the differences in special facilities, location, room size and architecture...