Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best are driven to them. The tragedy of this state of affairs is not just Harvard's but the nation's, and it reminds us of the enormous unfinished business of race that will always be before us. Most of the causes worth fighting for are not given a warm welcome at first--The Crimson opposed the memorial to the German dead of World War I, after all--but most causes worth fighting for are also worth waiting for, and I should hope that the day will come when Harvard will be secure enough in its shared ideals to sustain...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL PELTING DOWN ON A CORRUGATED-IRON roof jolted Specialist Jason Andrews from sleep on New Year's morning. "God, I'm still here," was the first thought that occurred to the 23-year-old from Winter Haven, Florida. "I was dreaming about a beach and warm weather," he says, "and I wake up in a sleeping bag in Bosnia...
...rather than the ironic, detached Austen. This Darcy is a man consumed by his passion for Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle), the novel's brilliant, voluble heroine. His eyes are piercing, and he cannot take them off her, in one scene ogling her from his bathroom window after languishing in a warm tub. Fortunately, despite one or two other such moments--not to mention an opening-credits sequence in which the camera pans over crinkled-up satin--this Pride and Prejudice never quite veers into Sidney Sheldon territory...
...weather? (November, too warm to purchase winter apparel; December, too snowy to trek to the mall.) Or were there just too many new stores? Retail-sales growth in December ranked as the worst since the 1990-91 recession. Sales were up only 2% compared with the previous year's figures. In December 1994, sales were 5.4% higher than...
What brought Malden Mills out of bankruptcy was its research-and-development team, which came up with a revolutionary fabric that was extremely warm, extremely light, quick to dry and easy to dye. Polartec is also ecologically correct because it is essentially made from recycled plastic bottles. Clothing made with Polartec or a fraternal brand name, Synchilla, is sold by such major outdoors clothiers as L.L. Bean, Patagonia, Eastern Mountain Sports and Eddie Bauer, and it accounts for half of Malden's $400 million-plus in 1995 sales...