Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shuttle service called Operation Prison Gap and rewards Mrs. Rosado's loyalty by charging her only half the $40 fee. During the course of a week, thousands of New Yorkers visit relatives in upstate and western New York prisons. On Friday and Saturday nights, dozens of buses and vans stack up at Columbus Circle. Mrs. Rosado, who retired as a seamstress four years ago, prefers to go on a weekday and avoid the crowds...
Even Tom Wolfe, who documented the counterculture in the '60s and greed in the '80s, found himself buying a stack of hip-hop records in order to understand Atlanta in the '90s for his best-selling book A Man in Full. In several sections of his novel, Wolfe offers his own sly parodies of today's rap styles: "How'm I spose a love her/ Catch her mackin' with the brothers," Wolfe writes in a passage. "Ram yo' booty! Ram yo' booty!" Most of the characters in A Man in Full are a bit frightened by rap's passion...
...turn of the millennium, but this year as every year, students will try to outwit their teaching fellows and professors, graders will appreciate wit and originality in a huge stack of bluebooks and, by February, the marks will be entered and the academic cycle will begin anew. Indeed, some things never change...
...during a stop at Lamont last week, Hung wasquick to call the typewriter's product"unacceptable" pointing to her stack of manilaenvelopes sporting wavy, smudged addresses...
...read the immediate future of his company written in empty shipping containers. He watches cargo ships steam into the harbor laden with products from Asia. These containers would normally return to Asia full of American products. But now those goods are too expensive in Asia, so the containers stack up on the dock, harbingers of a recession. "It hasn't got to our level yet," says Laney. "But it will. We know it's coming...