Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press charges against her husband, he had somehow learned of her supposedly secret appointment. Outraged that she was ruining his career, Jeromy confronted Marie inside the waiting room of the base legal office early last year. He fired a pawnshop pistol into her chest. As horrified witnesses watched her yellow dress turn crimson, she screamed, "Jeromy, no!" And then he fired a second round into her brain...
Each time Lisa Jones arrived at an East Baltimore, Maryland, health clinic for a pregnancy checkup last year, the 19-year-old was given a yellow voucher worth $10. After 10 visits, in which she improved her diet and learned how to care for an infant, she gave birth to a healthy baby daughter. "There are a lot of girls out there who are naive," Jones says. "The vouchers are a good way to get them to come...
...derision, the hideous "Shops by Harvard Yard" sign near Holyoke Center has finally been dismantled. Installed only this past September, the notorious monstrosity was designed to "bring some color" to the area, according to Wendy Prellwitz, a partner with the architectural firm which oversaw the project. The massive yellow and silver "sculpture" certainly brought some intense reaction...
...will call Moscow," the factory manager said, glancing at the yellow telephone on his desk. The special vertushka phone network still connects industrial managers across the 11 time zones of the former Soviet Union with the new nomenklatura -- the unofficial network of bureaucrats, former party elites and military officers -- neatly bypassing political leaders in Moscow who might attempt to stand in the way of deals such as this...
What did? Well, yellow ties are out, but avarice remains popular, and the financial universe -- Is anyone surprised? -- still has masters. These new barbarians at the gates of international commerce may have the geeky, high- water-pants look of the typical math grad student, and they may caress their Sun Microsystems workstations rather than I-got-mine mobiles. But nearly everyone agrees that they are even scarier than the gunslingers. They are "math jockeys," "nerds," "pop eyes," "quarks," "techies." Call them quants, for quantitative analysts. They are odd birds indeed, the field biologist discovers, and . . . Hark, here...