Word: velcro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jousting. Sky-high slides and long lines for Sno-Cones. Free fried dough. Violent Femmes and the Velcro challenge. Saturday afternoon in the MAC Quad offered Harvard students a chance to experience all of these activities and events along with 3,000 other college kids with spring fever. For a minute, we almost thought we were at Brown...
According to members of the council's Campus Life Committee, this year's amusements will include UFO laser tag, a velcro wall, sumo wrestling, jousts and a 33-foot high "titanic slide...
...presidency has been tarnished...words have been devalued, and institutions have squandered respect." Other Republicans are refining the language they will use to accuse Al Gore of passive complicity in the actions that brought Clinton to the brink of removal from office. "If Clinton is Teflon, Gore may be Velcro for a lot of this," says Castellanos. "At some point, he's got to deny Bill Clinton...
These explosive growth rates cause companies to confront the recurring Velcro Valley conundrum: What starts out as a couple of bros silk-screening T shirts and writing invoices on brown paper bags can quickly grow into a multimillion-dollar business. When that happens, it gets a little harder to take the afternoon off to go surfing. "If you want to grow," says Danny Kwok of Quiksilver, "you gotta give away a little bit of your life-style...
...niche sports magazines, and Woolcott further infuses his brand with coreness by sponsoring--for as much as $100,000 a year--alternative-sports stars such as skateboarder Rune Glifberg and snowboarder Terje Haakonsen. As a result, Volcom commands almost universal respect throughout the bro-brah network, as Kwok calls Velcro Valley's web of business connections...