Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsible for the never-ending drama in Dunster House? While The Crimson is not the root of the problems in Dunster House, it has certainly contributed to, if not caused, the soap opera feeling of the entire affair...
...grain-milling factory after the government banned imported wheat. Unable to find another post related to his training, he began importing "fairly used cars," as Nigerians call preowned automobiles. "The country would be better off if I were to engage in the production of items people can use, like soap," he says. "But there is no encouragement in this country for entrepreneurs or people who have learning. Money, quick money, is the only thing that matters." For most people, there is only one way to make a fast buck: from government contracts awarded on the basis of favoritism and kickbacks...
...bitten or otherwise exposed, the victim should wash the wound immediately with soap and water and then get medical help. The rabies vaccination, first developed by Louis Pasteur in 1885, used to be an extremely painful series of 14 to 21 shots in the abdomen. In recent years, a much gentler but equally effective set of five shots in the arm has become available...
...Foster had not been hospitalized for depression, as Forrestal had, nor was he the focus of criminal proceedings, as McFarlane was. Foster's death illuminates how Washington rituals have become wretched soap operas played out on a media stage where people, with all their frailties, are mercilessly dissected more than the policies they propound. Personal tragedy can come swiftly and unexpectedly...
American films and TV shows have won widespread acceptance in the Far East. TV soap operas such as Santa Barbara have developed a huge following among the affluent in New Delhi, India, even though many of the episodes are 10 years old. It is now common to find teenage girls in China wearing lipstick such as U.S. movie stars and youths on Hong Kong streets dressed such as rock-'n'-roll musicians...