Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These superstitions, passed down from Baker's Hungarian grandmother, are among the more unusual. But everyone knows the basic drill: Don't let a black cat cross your path. Don't open an umbrella indoors. Don't walk under a ladder. Breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck...
Comparing the words "Black" and"African-American," she described "Black" as"unified," "empowering," an "umbrella" which didnot push out "friends in Africa...
...pope stood sweating outdoors, an aide rushed forward and opened an umbrella. Sure enough, it was a red-and-white striped umbrella emblazoned "Harvard Business School...
...television coverage] went on for about half an hour--it was great," McArthur says. "Every time the umbrella turned [so that the Business School seal was facing away from the cameral],I kept waiting for them to turn it back...
Many of the early approaches are local and small scale, but they may point the way to the future. New York City's United Community Organization, an umbrella group of neighborhood settlement houses, in February began installing in its project buildings 200 PCs with ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) connections to the Internet. Financed by $1.4 million in federal grants and private donations, the machines help the settlement-house staffs coordinate their work and give neighborhood residents the opportunity to cruise the highway, have access to government databases, exchange E-mail and otherwise sample cyberspace's many wonders. The city...