Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BACK IN THE PALEOCAPITALISTIC ERA, as long ago as 10 years, anthropologists studying the breeding, feeding and plumage patterns of Wall Street concentrated on carnivores -- called gunslingers -- grownup frat boys in yellow ties and red suspenders who peddled junk bonds, drove BMWs and bought $2 million co-ops on Manhattan's East Side. Forget them: today they're fuddled old greedsters sitting around in their East Hampton beach houses wondering what happened...
Finally, when I returned to 29G in the afternoon last Monday, I discovered a great deal of yellow CAUTION tape around one side of the door way, and a construction crew tending a large hole outside. When I entered the elevator, I saw a sign that read, "Important: Due to a leak in the main water supply, the water will be shut off until further notice." How quaint...
...Vault used to contain what we call XR material," said Kevin M. Tierney, the circulation supervisor. "Playboy, Yellow Silk [a journal of erotica], "The joy of Sex" and other assorted erotica. People think XR stands for X-rating, but I don't know what it stands...
...which he shares with nine other roommates. Carpenter's room has a warm and cosy ambience.Maybe it's the large farmed photos of smiling people Carpenter met on his summer of '92 trip to Kenya. Or perhapss it's the African cotton wrap in rich primary colors-featuring dancing yellow pineapples and a thought-provoking Swahili proverb that hangs across one wall. Carpenter tell me Kenya is a special place for him, because of its people...
...bizarre incident, a dying cancer patient undergoing emergency treatment in a Riverside, California, hospital was suspected of emitting toxic fumes that caused six doctors and nurses to become violently ill. Witnesses said the patient's blood contained mysterious white and yellow crystals that reeked of ammonia, and that her body had a peculiar "film." Pending an autopsy report, experts were stumped for an explanation...