Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whatever we want whenever we want it, 21st century Americans will face a radical reshaping of the consumer culture we've been building since the 1950s. Think, for a second, about the revolution that shopping malls created in the 1970s and 1980s. They defined not only how we bought stuff but also how we spent our time. The malls themselves became essential parts of a new suburban design, where castles of consumption shaped town layouts in the same way the Colosseum shaped Rome. At its heart, cybercommerce isn't just about building businesses either. It is also, explains Yang, about...
...talking two centuries of pure American spirit--formless and weightless but as powerful as our arsenals, the stuff of thumping pulse and shiny eyes and the voice of glory raised high by horns and reeds. The U.S. Marine Band, a band now judged by experts to be the best the world has ever produced, turned 200 this past weekend. On Friday the drums shook the South Lawn of the White House as President Clinton paid tribute. The next evening the piccolos rode the heavens in a Kennedy Center concert attended by the men and women who run this country...
...angry teenager who hates the world. The song portrays teenage life as a cycle, not a downward spiral, and therefore has no reason to become overly bitter or cynical, nor overly cheesy. It feels like an objective memoir, not colored to be happy or sad, but rather of the stuff that life is made of: pain, pleasure, beauty, anger and, most of all, uncertainty. Consider some of these lyrics: "They're all laughing at your clothes/standing in the lunch line," and then "Face down in a stranger's tomb/didn't know you were dying/and you rise and you fall/and...
...warned though; there are still plenty of bugs: a search of the word sex returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then again, a search of the word gay yielded no entries; inexplicably, queer returned 10 pages' worth of stuff. (Note to Lycos: one of the first entries is from a gay adult looking for adult e-mail pals--not child-friendly...
...anything in a family partnership, including the family business. For most, though, here's how it works: You designate a brokerage account and then stuff it with stocks, bonds and other securities. You are the general partner and sole stockholder; your heirs become limited partners. Each year you can give limited partners family-partnership stock valued at a maximum of $10,000. But remember, the partnership stock represents assets worth more than $10,000. Thus you shield a larger part of your estate. And if you're a control freak, the best part is that only you, the general partner...