Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manger of Head Games, a kiosk which sells hair accessories, said the video monitors used by the guards offer only limited protection because the large yellow awnings attached to the kiosks block cameras from seeing customers handling the merchandise...
...even in deer-hunting country -- the Milwaukee Yellow Pages lists more than 30 taxidermists -- attitudes are shifting. Wisconsin passed a mandatory criminal background check on handgun buyers in 1991, and Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly...
...post-Mothers work, including Lumpy Gravy (1967), which Zappa called a "curiously inconsistent piece which started out to be a ballet but probably didn't make it," never quite reached the same freewheeling, free- associating level, although it became more ambitious and technically accomplished. In such works as The Yellow Shark, a 90-minute program of his instrumental music performed last year in Europe, his natural predilections for spiky, dissonant sonorities and unusual sound effects were fully in evidence, exemplifying his Cage-like motto of AAAFNRAA -- "Anything anytime anyplace for no reason...
...girl as she wakes up at dawn and walks miles through forests and grasslands to her school. Small children can have fun finding Manyoni's tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave paintings, based on work by prehistoric artists who saw much the same landscape -- a rhinoceros, a fish and what might be an antelope -- serve as endpapers...
...Yellow feedback cards give students the opportunity to make special requests or complain about meals. All dining halls guarantee that an HDS employee will call students within 24 hours after receiving a yellow card to discuss a complaint or notify the student about the feasibility of requesting an additional cereal or type of bread...