Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That might be one possible explanation for the explosion in sales of such wilderness products as L.L. Bean's portable "vacation home," a tent that sleeps five and includes a screen porch ($499); or the Coleman Company's "Event Center," a 40 1/2-in. collapsible bar with a 37-qt. storage compartment roomy enough for a case of Chardonnay ($29.99); or for the Starbucks-deprived, G.S.I. Outdoors' Mini-Expresso maker, which weighs in at a featherlight...
...enough party, and big enough people, to disagree on individual issues and still work together for our common goal: restoring the American dream." Former president Gerald R. Ford too urged GOP activists to work under a big tent open to broad views. "Ours is the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln," Ford said...
...across the country, from Alabama to Vermont. The depth and breadth of ideas reflect the wide array of interests that older Republicans cherish. If the future of the party rests in its youth, then the 21st century will bring much of the same diversity of ideology that challenges Big Tent Republicanism...
Still, in Olympic City you can get a chill from something other than a giant Coke bottle. In the Coliseum Tent there is an exhibit of "priceless artifacts" from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Whether it be Baron Pierre de Coubertin's saber or Jesse Owens' track shoe or a medal from the first Games in Athens, the artifacts can do a better job of transporting you to the Olympics than, say, the mountain-biking simulation. The museum pieces are not only keepsakes of the Games' history, but also reminders that this city has been handed a glorious legacy...
...sixth-floor balcony outside his office at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (A.C.O.G.), surveying his sweltering promised land. To the north lie the new Olympic Village dorms and the aquatic center; right below him to the west is Centennial Olympic Park, swarming with scores of road-paving, tent-erecting workers frantically engaged in the last-second realization of his vision...