Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaches tens of millions of people around the world, and it's growing faster than a Las Vegas bar tab. Many of the folks who roam the networks may like to place a wager from time to time, especially from the comfort of home or an office computer. The smell of all those suckers with money to burn has attracted dozens of would-be Bugsy Siegels, all of them racing to set up Internet sites. Analysts say legalized online gambling could be a $10 billion-a-year industry...
Marijuana was basically like alcohol for thoseunder 21--illegal, but omnipresent. It's hard tothink of a party in those years withoutremembering the smell...
...cycling partners met through an advertisement Coleman had placed in a national biking magazine in 1987 looking for a companion for a bicycle tour of Yugoslavia,"taking time to smell the roses...
Inside room 1091 of building 5 (of 26) on the Microsoft campus, the air is filled with the faint ozone smell of burning circuits and the sound of hard drives whirring and rattling like old jalopies. This is the Engine Room, where 150 computers, loaded with all manner of monitors, microprocessors and plug-in cards, are putting Microsoft's newest product through last-minute stress tests. "It's like certifying the Boeing 777," says Rich Waddel, a Microsoft test manager. "There are about 15 million lines of code in this thing...
...remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like the end of the war," Lubos said, pointing to one jagged excavation. Pollution haze darkened the clouds, and the smell of chemicals was in the air-a far cry from the bright skies 50 years earlier. Was there more promise then than now? I wondered...