Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bedford's whaling industry made it the wealthiest city, per capita, in the nation. As the whaling died out, the city, like most of its neighbors in the Northeast, began to focus on the tremendous textile industry. All over New England, towns like Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River sprang up around the new mills that were pumping out cotton cloth...
...would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature of "Smokin' Bob Dole...
...subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook for $650 million before Bollenbach sprang him, an act that some of the Donald's rivals found unforgivable...
This comfort sprang from knowing that the people who lived in Holworthy 23 might not be able to write my Expos paper or take my Ec 10 hourly, but they would smile and laugh and somehow make the mountains of tasks more bearable...
...behemoth, or so it seemed. Never as murderously tricky to climb as K-2, the world's second-highest peak, its challenge lay in the brute facts of its extreme altitude, occasional storms and inaccessibility. As clothing and equipment manufacturers mitigated the first problem, and a sprawling base camp sprang up at 5,340 meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them. It was not exactly a risk-free...