Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tractors just keep coming around the corner of Mulberry and Main in downtown Wilmington, Ohio, a sputtering battalion of Oliver Super 55s, McCormick Farmalls and Minneapolis Molines--the stars of the Clinton County Corn Festival's 1997 parade. Families line the sidewalks, children wave to the farmers as they pass, but after 20 minutes Kathy Wiley has seen enough. A sylphlike executive secretary at Warner Bros. in Burbank, Calif., Wiley, 31, switches off her videocamera and wrinkles her nose at her husband Jim, who is busy snapping photos...
...found herself surfing on a worldwide wave. Many European casinos, which were traditionally modeled after private clubs, are remaking themselves in the flashy American style to attract a U.S.-type mass market. In Asia, Africa and South America many nations have deregulated gambling or privatized casinos that were once state run and now need a new look. And where better to get a feel for the Las Vegas style than in Las Vegas? So hordes of foreign gambling impresarios have trekked there to soak up the atmosphere and hire those creating it. "We're just so much bigger...
...afoul of the Republican Congress because like Clinton, he refuses to disavow affirmative action as a weapon against racial inequality. Which makes Lee's appointment critical if Clinton is to put any teeth into his recent mini-wave of civil rights and race initiatives. The White House would ultimately prefer to win it the old-fashioned way when Congress returns. But Clinton may decide that the best victory is always the surest...
...Centrum was the loudest. For nearly 15 minutes Puffy hovered above the crowd asking fans stage left, center and right to scream as loud as they could. Having declared that the audience was the loudest he had ever seen, Puff Daddy had all of his fans do the wave around the auditorium. Another large portion of the show was taken up by an obviously staged, sexually explicit argument between Lil' Kim and Puff Daddy concerning oral...
...faces behind the cameras have also changed over the years, according to Square merchants catering to tourists. They say that the first wave of European and Japanese tourists has been supplanted in recent years by visitors from Latin America and other East Asian countries...