Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most likely to get you run over by a truck. First there was the boom box -- big, bad and blaring. But soon Sony introduced the Walkman, the compact musical device designed to be seen but not heard. Since then, sidewalks and streets have been filled with people wearing small foam-rubber circles on or in their ears and expressions of rapture on their faces. Watch out for that manhole...
Humblest Billionaires. Pickup-truck-driving Sam Walton, 69, built his Wal-Mart discount chain from 276 stores at the decade's start to 1,379 locations by the end. When the '87 crash temporarily erased $2 billion of his personal fortune, he quipped, "It's paper anyway. It was paper when we started, and it's paper afterward." Warren Buffett, 59, the cowlicked Oracle of Omaha, built a $7 billion fortune on Wall Street by investing the old-fashioned way: buying stock and holding it. Said Buffett: "The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves...