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Word: yugos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insidious and sometimes groundless questioning of Anita Hill two years ago evoked a personal injury lawyer trying to suggest that perhaps the defendant meant to drive his Yugo into the client's oncoming Mack truck...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: A Different Kind of Motley Crew | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...unemployed, 1.4 million on ostensibly temporary layoffs and 1.1 million pensioners. Between September and October alone in the two remaining republics of the former Yugoslavia, industrial output dropped one-quarter. Last week the Crvena Zastava industrial works in Kragujevac closed down the assembly lines for the Yugo automobile; the only production unit still functioning makes weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaky Sanctions | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...using the B-2 bomber on such missions would be like driving a Porche to the neighborhood Store 24--a Yugo could do the job just as well for much less money. It might be valuable to research stealth technology, but it would be foolish to spend $60 billion producing an unnecessary machine...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: The Earth's Nuclear Future | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

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