Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday's hearing saw supporters from bothsides arguing in favor of and against the bill...
...addition, other House residents at the meeting expressed concern over what some saw as unnecessary secrecy regarding the committee's activities, including its finances...
...from graduation that we could enjoy ourselves without the burdens of obligatory remembering. All of us were having a great time, eating and talking and laughing. But then a strange thing happened to me. I gazed down the long table, and in a flash of unexpected vision, I suddenly saw all of my friends old, very...
...treasurer. They had a permit from the city, a hotel room across the street for showers, a pay phone hooked up to take phone calls from radio stations, and a tech-support van broadcasting a live webcam pointed at the theater. This, I assume, was to prove the old saw that the only thing more boring than sleeping out for Star Wars tickets is watching people sleeping out for Star Wars tickets...
...with a price of less than $2, were a big sell for years, all the way through Return of the Jedi. Around the late '80s, the line began to die out, and Star Wars merchandise became fodder for liquidation stores and thrift shops--and wise collectors. The early '90s saw a wave of nostalgia for the Star Wars films, and the action figures, now no longer in general circulation, became a hot commodity. Dealers thrived until Kenner unveiled a second, brand-new Star Wars figure line in 1995. Cashing in on nostalgic fans and people excited by rumors...