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Word: skillets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard has bigger fish to fry. And the skillet will be re-lit, starting this Friday night...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Bigger Fish to Fry | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

...While answering questions, he frantically stuffed buns with sausages, handed out Diet Cokes, collected money and gave change. We weren't so lucky with other vendors. A woman frying dough was too busy even to give her name. "Go to the guy at the sausages," she said, eyeing her skillet to make sure not to overfry anything...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: Swimming in Grease | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Meantime, let's go back to where we came in this summer, walking among those greasy bodies frying on that skillet-flat beach. It does not take experts to know that a solid majority of Americans have a weight problem (66% in a recent Harris poll) and that the temptations to settle into a permanent slouch will only grow stronger. The electronic superhighway is on the way, with 500 channels of interactive broadcasting. Imagine this Leave It to Beaver update, circa 1997: after Wally and the Beaver rip through a few games of Return of Sonic the Hedgehog, after June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potatoes, Arise! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Motel life might have soured their souls. The children watched television all day, and slept on the floor or shared a single bed. They ate lunch meat from a cooler, or cooked fried chicken on some electric skillets and a hot plate they bought from a street person. Brandon once tripped over a shoe and burned his hand on hot oil in the skillet. He sobbed for an hour, but Tamey did not think the burn was bad enough to justify calling an ambulance. She was worried about the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Carolina: They're Home for Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product." At Saturn, team members rejected the traditional U.S. form of assembly line, where workers do two things at once -- toil and shuffle -- as they struggle to keep up with car bodies creeping down the line. On the Saturn "skillet" line, workers ride along on a moving wooden conveyor belt as they do their jobs, which enables them to concentrate on their work. Other progressive steps are the use of water-borne paint (rather than oil-based), which reduces pollution, and an aluminum-casting method called the lost-foam process, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Stuff: Does U.S. Industry Have It? | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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