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Word: vat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only player in this game with a level head is Old Faithful, Defender of the Faith Herself: Queen Elizabeth's statements from Buckingham Palace have been properly curt and a decided cut above the thrashing-about that occurs in the vat of mud that is our media...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Royal Geek Show | 12/2/1995 | See Source »

...herself last month, raging about Waco. Authorities are now questioning Jennifer, a student at Niagara County Community College and a former barmaid at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Buffalo, New York, which features Jell-O wrestling, where women, dressed in shorts and a top, wrestle male customers in a vat of lemon gelatin. She apparently told friends earlier this year that "something big is going to happen in March or April, and Tim's involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...hockey team just can't be trusted these days. You leave the Harvard men's hockey team with a three-game winning streak, in prime position for a late Beanpot/ECAC/NCAA (take your pick) title run, and a mere three weeks later you're holding a broom out over a vat of quicksand, hoping Harvard can grab hold and drag itself to safety before it's too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Collapse | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

...Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen vat so wide it uses a bed sheet for a filter. His only utensil is a plastic spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of Prisoner 4013970 | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...same time, a VAT would be easier to enforce. The compliance rate in the United states is less than 90 percent for income taxes and around 65 percent for capital gains tax, whereas the compliance rate for VATs in Europe and elsewhere is in the high 90s. This is largely a function of the simplistic format of the VAT...

Author: By Evan P. Cucci, | Title: Ending April's Cruelest Day | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

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