Word: stickering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town's revered military school. The Icehouse draft beer is flowing, and all's well with the world; or, more precisely, everything's in its place. The Confederate flag and the flag of the South Carolina secession are tacked next to Old Glory near the ceiling; the IMPEACH CLINTON sticker beneath the flags seems practically to glow; the cadets and their sweethearts are crowding the red vinyl-covered benches; and Shannon Faulkner's hair -- the proximate cause for the celebratory mood -- is still on her head...
...relation to the Japanese yen. Twenty-five years ago, a $1 bill was worth 360 yen. Today it's worth only 100 yen, and at one point last Tuesday it dropped below 100. The most common affliction of U.S. travelers to Tokyo is not jet lag. It's sticker shock. For people who pay in dollars, the top hotels are so expensive, they ought to offer mortgages...
...that any departure from the version of events he gave in his police interview -- when he presumably repeated his insistence that he was not involved in the killings at all -- shows that, in general, he can't be believed. Dilemmas like that are one reason for a new bumper sticker on the L.A. freeways: "Pray for O.J." If he's innocent, he'll need the help. If he's guilty, he'll need it even more...
There's a bumper sticker you see occasionally when you're driving down the Long Island Expressway, and it captures perfectly the sentiment of many a New York hockey...
...entering a counterintuitive era when closing bases costs money, the GATT trade agreement costs money, and reforming welfare costs money. And the public is already kind of sticker-shocked...